Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
⛓ Read Psalm 27 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 light and my salvation' grounds the declaration that 'God is light.' The metaphor of God as the believer's light is a fixed OT motif that 1 John condenses into a definitional statement.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The LORD is my light and my salvation' lends the divine self-designation Jesus appropriates. Moderate Volume; Coherence is strong because John's 'I am' light-claim takes up a predicate Scripture reserves for the LORD, reinforcing the chapter's high Christology.
Medium confidence'The LORD is my light and my salvation' supplies the divine-light identification that the Prologue transfers to the Logos. Faint and contested; included for recurrence of the light-as-God motif.
Low confidence'The LORD is my light and my salvation' supplies a scriptural backdrop for Jesus' self-identification as light, especially apposite as a blind man is about to receive sight/salvation. The echo is conceptual; Volume is low and many candidates compete.
Low confidence