I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of […]
⛓ Read Psalm 50 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 I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine' grounds v.25, that God is not 'served by human hands as though he needed anything'; strong thematic coherence with sacrificial critique.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God declares he has no need of sacrificial food ("I will not accept a bull... do I eat the flesh of bulls?"), grounding Paul's claim that food neither commends nor diminishes us before God (v.8). The prophetic critique that God is not won by eating coheres with Paul's argument. Faint volume; marked low.
Low confidence