Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
⛓ Read Psalm 137 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.
'O daughter of Babylon... happy shall he be who repays you as you have served us' (LXX Ps 136:8). The 'repay/render to Babylon' motif; the doubling ('repay her double') extends the lex talionis. Coherence high; the only Psalter source in the chapter.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The repayment formula 'to repay affliction to those who afflict you' resonates with the imprecatory blessing on whoever repays Babylon what she has done to Zion. The measure-for-measure justice is shared, though Paul reserves the act to God's eschatological judgment rather than human agents. Contested as a direct source.
Low confidence