Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
⛓ Read Psalm 121 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.
'The Lord... will guard you from the evil one' echoes the psalm's promise that the Lord will keep/guard you from all evil and will keep your life. The verb of divine guarding (phylasso) against evil is the shared note; Paul personalizes 'evil' as 'the evil one.'
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Keep them from the evil one' (v15) parallels 'The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.' The divine keeping/guarding-from-evil idiom is coherent with the prayer's repeated 'keep' language (vv11-12), though 'the evil one' personalizes it; moderate Volume.
Medium confidence