Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
⛓ Read Psalm 107 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.
'Those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death' quotes Psalm 107:10, 'some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,' whom God then delivers (107:14). The verbatim sit-in-darkness-and-shadow-of-death phrase gives high volume.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Psalm 107 describes those who 'sat in darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons,' whom God delivers. The demoniac bound with chains and fetters, dwelling in deathly tombs and broken loose (vv.3-4), evokes this portrait of the captive freed by divine mercy. The same Psalm's later stilling of the storm (107:29) parallels Mark's preceding pericope, supporting recurrence; nonetheless verbal contact is faint.
Low confidenceThose sitting in darkness, prisoners in misery, faintly color the demoniacs' tomb-bound bondage; thematic only, contested.
Low confidence