For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
⛓ Read Psalm 31 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.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'They scheme together against me, plotting to take my life' matches the conspiracy 'lying in wait' to kill Paul. The lament-of-the-righteous-pursued pattern (Psalm of David, used in Acts' passion typology for the suffering witness) gives good coherence; medium confidence as thematic echo.
Medium confidenceThe recurring 'plot made against him by Jews' (v.3, cf. v.19) resonates faintly with the lament topos of the righteous sufferer surrounded by those who scheme to take his life; thematic coherence with Paul-as-persecuted-servant, but no verbal borrowing.
Low confidenceThe plot to take Jesus' life 'by deception' resonates with the lament psalmist's complaint that his enemies 'scheme together against me, plotting to take my life.' The motif of conspiratorial counsel against the righteous sufferer belongs to the psalmic matrix Mark draws on throughout the Passion, but the link is thematic rather than verbal.
Low confidence'they took counsel together against me; they plotted to take away my life' is a lament topos the gathering of priests in deceit replays.
Low confidence