I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 8 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'There are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree' is Jeremiah's judgment oracle on fruitlessness, pairing the fig tree with the vineyard exactly as Luke does. Strong Volume in the fig-tree/no-fruit collocation and high Coherence with the threat to 'cut it down.'
High confidenceJesus' cursing of the fruitless fig tree enacts Jeremiah's judgment oracle, 'there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade,' where Israel's barrenness brings consuming judgment. The fig-tree-as-Israel symbolism has high coherence and recurs throughout the prophets, framing the act as a prophetic sign against the temple it brackets.
High confidence'When I would gather them... there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf is withered': a judgment oracle on fruitless Israel whose figs and leaves fail, the closest prophetic backdrop to the cursed, leafy-but-fruitless fig tree (21:19).
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