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Psalm 46:2

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

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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.

Luke 17:5-6 ?

The psalm's confidence even 'though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea' supplies the very image of an immovable thing thrown into the sea, here recast as the work of faith. The verbal overlap (uprooted/carried into the sea) is real but the figure is proverbial, so it is faint.

Low confidence
Matt 21:18-22 ?

'Though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea' supplies the very image of a mountain cast into the sea used in Jesus' saying on faith.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 46
Psalm 46:2-3 2