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Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Matt 5:17-20
'Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in the heavens'; the eternal stability of Torah affirmed in v.18.
Medium confidenceLuke 16:16-17 ?
'Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven' parallels the indestructibility of the Law's least stroke. The endurance-of-Torah motif gives thematic coherence, though the saying's imagery of a 'stroke of a pen' is independent.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Psalm 119