The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
⛓ Read Psalm 37 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.
The chief priests press Festus to summon Paul to Jerusalem while 'plotting to kill him on the way' (v.3). The psalter's portrait of the wicked who 'watches the righteous and seeks to slay him' supplies the scriptural type of the ambush against the innocent man; verbal contact is slight, so this is a thematic echo rather than a quotation, and contested.
Low confidence'the wicked watches the righteous and seeks to kill him' supplies the righteous-sufferer plot frame for the conspiracy.
Low confidence