“Woe to the nations who rise up against my race! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgement, to put fire and worms in their flesh; and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”
⛓ Read Judith 16 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgment; he will send fire and worms into their flesh.' Deuterocanonical worm-and-fire judgment language for the enemies of God supports the recurrence of the worm-death motif as divine punishment.
Low confidenceJudith's hymn warns that the Lord will give fire and worms to the flesh of the nations, weeping in pain forever, a Second-Temple development of Isaiah 66:24. Its availability shows the worm-and-fire judgment circulating in the period Mark writes. It corroborates the deuterocanonical reception of the Isaiah imagery.
Low confidence