Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
⛓ Read Psalm 22 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.
'I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion' draws directly on the psalmist's cry, 'Save me from the lion's mouth.' Paul casts his rescue at the first defense in the language of the suffering righteous one delivered from the predatory lion.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Save me from the mouth of the lion' belongs to the righteous-sufferer's plea to be rescued from beasts, a possible backdrop to 'I fought with beasts at Ephesus' (v.32). The echo is faint and contested, offered alongside Daniel 6 as the Septuagintal language of beastly threat surrounding the persecuted faithful.
Low confidenceThe cry of one tormented, naked, and bound, delivered by God, faintly resonates with the psalmist's plea for rescue from beastly powers; the 'Most High God' title also recurs in the psalms. Low Volume; contested.
Low confidence