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Psalm 147:9

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

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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.

Luke 12:22-31

God 'gives to the animals their food, and to the young ravens that cry' reinforces the raven providence saying with a second Scripture. The recurrence of the ravens-fed-by-God motif across Job and Psalms strengthens the case (Recurrence).

High confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 6:25-34

'He gives to the animals their food, and to the young ravens which cry' — God feeding the birds is the precise image of 'See the birds of the sky... your heavenly Father feeds them.'

Medium confidence
Luke 12:4-7 ?

God 'gives to the animals their food, and to the young ravens that cry' grounds the providence logic that not one sparrow is forgotten before God. The creature-care theme recurs more fully in 12:24, making this a coherent but light echo here.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 147
Psalm 147:19-20 2