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Psalm 113:1

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise Yahweh’s name.

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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.

Matt 26:26-30

'when they had sung a hymn' (v30) refers to the Hallel Psalms (113-118) sung at the close of the Passover meal.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rev 19:1-5

Opening of the Hallel proper, 'Halleluyah! Praise, O servants of the LORD' - matches the throne-voice summons to 'all you his servants' (Rev 19:5). LXX Allelouia + douloi.

High confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 113
Psalm 113:7-8 2Psalm 113:7 2