Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
⛓ Read Psalm 34 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.
"if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious" (2:3) closely reworks Psalm 34:8 LXX (33:9), "taste and see that the Lord is good (chrēstos)." The verb 'tasted' plus the divine predicate is a strong verbal borrowing; the wordplay chrēstos/Christos prepares the turn to the living stone. Psalm 34 recurs across 1 Peter (cf. 3:10-12 quoting Ps 34:12-16), raising recurrence and volume.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Taste and see that the LORD is good' parallels the discern-the-good motif of 'Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good' (5:21). Faint and contested.
Low confidence