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Psalm 27:2

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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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.

Echo2

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

John 18:1-11 ?

'When evildoers came against me... they stumbled and fell' matches the soldiers going backward and falling to the ground at Jesus' word. The psalm of the righteous sufferer whose assailants collapse gives strong thematic Coherence; the falling-enemies motif is the verbal hinge linking the scene to the lament tradition.

Medium confidence
Gal 5:13-15 ?

'If you bite and devour one another' echoes the psalmist's enemies who draw near 'to eat up my flesh,' supplying the predatory cannibal imagery for internal strife. Volume is modest and the metaphor is conventional, so dependence is plausible but uncertain.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 27
Psalm 27:1 4Psalm 27:1-3 2Psalm 27:4 4Psalm 27:12 6Psalm 27:14 2