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Psalm 113:7

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

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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.

Jas 2:1-7

'He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes.' James 2:5's election of the poor to royal inheritance draws on this reversal-of-status theme common to the Psalms of the anawim.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Acts 3:1-10 ?

'He raiseth up the poor out of the dust' resonates faintly with the beggar at the gate being raised up; thematic coherence with God lifting the destitute, but no verbal borrowing.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 113
Psalm 113:1 2Psalm 113:7-8 2