Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
⛓ Read Psalm 131 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.
The psalmist stills his soul 'like a weaned child,' modeling trustful smallness before God, which coheres with receiving the kingdom 'like a little child.' The child as image of humble dependence is the shared note. Contested and low: thematic resonance without verbal contact.
Low confidenceThe image of becoming 'as little children' before God resonates with the psalmist's quieted, weaned-child posture of trust and renounced ambition. Verbal overlap is thin, so the link is thematic/figural rather than lexical.
Low confidence