Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
⛓ Read Psalm 118 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The worshiper's confidence from the Hallel psalm, made the believer's answer to fear — paired at once with the Deuteronomy promise, two texts braided into one assurance.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?' supplies the rhetorical shape of 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (v.31); the same God-for-me-therefore-fearless logic.
Medium confidence