Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'In nothing frightened by the adversaries' resonates with the psalmist's fearlessness before foes ('though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear'). The shared courage-before-enemies posture coheres with Paul's exhortation; verbal contact is generic, so a faint echo.
Low confidence'The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?... though war arise against me, yet I will be confident' resonates with the catalogue of perils that cannot prevail (vv.35,37-39).
Low confidence