I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant' supplies the penitent's voice answered by the seeking shepherd. The verbal pairing of straying sheep and divine seeking is close, and coherence with the repentance emphasis (v.7) is strong. Slightly lower volume than Ezekiel 34.
Medium confidence'I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant' supplies the precise pairing of straying and being sought that the parable dramatizes.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant' — individual lost-sheep language resonant with Mt 15:24.
Low confidence