Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
⛓ Read Psalm 6 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity' reproduces the psalmist's dismissal of evildoers almost verbatim as the householder's rejection. High Volume (near-exact wording) and strong Availability make this a direct quotation, here on the lips of the eschatological judge.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity' — verbatim source of Jesus' dismissal sentence in 7:23.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity' supplies a Psalter idiom of separation from the wicked that the v.19 seal recasts as an imperative on those who name the Name. Faint and one of several possible backgrounds.
Low confidence