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Psalm 55:22

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Pet 5:5-11

'Casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you' closely renders 'Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you' (LXX Ps 54:23), the clearest scriptural source for the anxiety-casting exhortation.

High confidence
Matt 6:25-34

'Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you' — the antidote to anxiety is entrusting provision to God, the heart of 'don't be anxious for your life.'

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Phil 4:4-7

'Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you' parallels Paul's remedy for anxiety: hand your requests to God in prayer rather than carry them. Coherence with the anti-anxiety-through-petition logic is strong; volume is moderate since Paul shares the idea, not the wording.

Medium confidence
1 Cor 7:32-35 ?

Paul's wish that believers be 'free from cares' (anxieties) and devoted to the Lord faintly echoes the psalmic counsel to 'cast your burden on the Lord.' The anxiety/care language is generic, and Paul's point (undistracted devotion) is his own; the echo is faint and contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 55
Psalm 55:12-14 3