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Warning : SPOILERS onward forUS
Jordan Peele’schilling new movieUsfeatures repeat cite to the Bible verse Jeremiah 11:11 - and many moviegoer may be wondering what this mean . In short , Jeremiah 11:11 is a prophecy of people being punish for their Sin by have wickedness convey upon them , which makes it very fitting forUs ' themes and Revelation of Saint John the Divine .
We first see the mansion saying " Jeremiah 11:11 " being held by a character called Alan , whom vernal Adelaide pass as a child when she walks down to the beach . We later see Alan again , having been mangle by his doppelganger , and in the end we see his doppelganger on the night that Adelaide went down to the beach . or else of holding a augury , Alan’sTethered half(who is squall Jeremiah in the credits ) actually has 1111 carve into his forehead .
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Jeremiah 11:11 has multiple meanings , the most obvious one being that " 11:11 " is a palindrome ( the same rearwards as ahead ) . Mirrors are used symbolically throughoutUs , most notably in the hall of mirror that Adelaide wanders into as a child , and are naturally associated with the experience of meeting one ’s doppelganger . However , this is the existent Bible transition that Jeremiah 11:11 refers to :
" Therefore thus saith the Lord , Behold , I will contribute evil upon them , which they shall not be able to escape ; and though they shall scream unto me , I will not hearken unto them . "
The Book of Jeremiah is part of the Old Testament , and is taken from the writings of a Judaean seer call Jeremiah , who is also believe to have authored the Book of Kings and the Book of Lamentations . Jeremiah ’s writing include news report of how he was persecute and mocked for his prognostication , but he could n’t help but speak them because the word of God was like " a burn blast shut up in my bones . " Because of this distress , Jeremiah is also call " the weeping prophesier " - which is interesting when copulate with the fact that a touch image ofbothGet OutandUsis a conclusion - up of the protagonist ’s cheek with weeping running down it .
Chapter 11 of the Book of Jeremiah , where the quotation mark inUscomes from , warns of a covenant that has been broken between God and the multitude of Judah and Jerusalem , and the distress that will follow as a result of this broken covenant . The chapter recalls the accord made between God and the people of Israel during their Exodus from Egypt that they would be obedient to the word of God : " Yet they obeyed not , nor incline their ear , but walked every one in the imagination of their evil ticker . " This takes us up to Jeremiah 11:11 , where God promises to bring evil upon the people as penalty for breaking their ancestors ' covenant , and warns that he will not take heed to their cry .
Needless to say , the God of the Old Testament can be a lilliputian brutal , which makes the citation very meet for the Tethered inUs . Jeremiah 11:11 enamour the themes of both punishment ( the Tethered go up up against their other halves , and carmine takesrevenge on Adelaide for remand her all those age ago ) and an absence of mercy ( the Tethered are unmoved by their doubles ' pleas or attempts to dicker ) . In a sense , Adelaide fulfils the role of Jeremiah in the movie , as she live the Tethered will eventually take their brute revenge , but is lost to stop it from happening .
Prophet Jeremiah by Michelangelo
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