Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
⛓ Read Psalm 119 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.
'A lamp shining in a dark place' applies the psalm's 'your word is a lamp to my feet' to the prophetic word the readers do well to heed until the day dawns.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path' links walking, word, and light, themes that converge in the pericope. Low Volume and contested; offered for the walking-by-light motif rather than a distinct source.
Low confidence'Your word is a lamp to my feet' — lamp/light as inner moral guidance, the imagery undergirding the eye as the lamp of the body.
Low confidence