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Psalm 19:4

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rom 10:14-21

Formula-introduced rhetorically ('did they not hear? Yes...'): 'Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world' — verbatim quotation of Psalm 19:4 (LXX 18:5). Paul transfers the cosmic witness of the heavens to the universal proclamation of the gospel, answering whether Israel has heard. High volume.

High confidence

Echo1

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

1 Thess 1:8 ?

'Their voice has gone out into all the earth' is the classic text for a proclamation diffusing universally (cited at Romans 10:18). The 'gone out into every place' phrasing of Paul's report shares this diffusion imagery; faint but availability and coherence warrant noting.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 19
Psalm 19:7 3Psalm 19:9 2