Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
⛓ Read Psalm 46 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.
Though the earth gives way, the mountains fall into the sea, and its waters roar and foam, the faithful need not fear. Jesus' roaring sea and shaken heavens amid which disciples lift up their heads in confidence mirror this psalm of cosmic upheaval and trust. Coherence with the tehom-chaos imagery.
Medium confidenceThe psalmist's confidence though 'the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea' supplies the image of mountains hurled into the sea as a figure of God's overturning power amid which the faithful do not fear. Jesus' mountain-into-the-sea saying coheres with this faith-not-fear motif, though the contact is thematic and faint.
Low confidence