who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The pairing serpents and scorpions matches Deuteronomy's description of the wilderness of fiery serpents and scorpions through which God led Israel safely. The exact lexical pair (serpents + scorpions) is rare enough to mark this as a deliberate combination with Psalm 91.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The wilderness journey 'with its fiery serpents' from which God preserved Israel parallels the survivor of shipwreck preserved from the venomous bite; a faint provision-and-protection echo.
Low confidence