Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
⛓ Read Psalm 23 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.
'The LORD is my shepherd... though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.' The good shepherd who lays down his life and faces the wolf evokes the shepherd who protects through death's shadow. Strong cultural availability, though the laying-down-of-life motif goes beyond Psalm 23.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The shepherd-flock imagery and the dark valley of the night's events faintly evoke the shepherd psalm, though here the shepherd is struck rather than protecting. The connection is associative within the broader shepherd motif rather than a cited parallel.
Low confidence