“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
⛓ Read Psalm 39 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.
"foreigners and pilgrims" (2:11) also recalls Psalm 39:12 (LXX 38:13), 'I am a sojourner (paroikos) with you and a pilgrim (parepidēmos), as all my fathers were' — the precise LXX pairing of both nouns, supplying the alien-on-earth posture.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
‘With strong crying and tears’ (v. 7) — the explicit ‘tears’ — faintly echoes the lament topos of Ps 39:12, where the sufferer begs God not to ‘be silent at my tears.’ Low verbal volume and a contested identification (any lament psalm could supply the motif), included for maximal coverage.
Low confidence