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Psalm 75:8

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

8 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

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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.

Allusion6

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 14:8–12

'In the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine foams... all the wicked of the earth shall drink' — the cup of wrath the wicked must drain, behind 'the cup of his anger' poured for the beast-worshipers. The 'unmixed/full strength' note plays on the psalm's full-strength wine.

High confidence
Luke 22:39-46

'Remove this cup from me' draws on the prophetic 'cup' of God's wrath/judgment, which in Psalm 75:8 the LORD makes the wicked drink to the dregs. The cup as a vessel of divine judgment to be drained gives a coherent OT background for Jesus' prayer.

Medium confidence
Mark 10:35-45

'In the hand of the LORD there is a cup... and he pours it out; surely all the wicked of the earth shall drain it' establishes the cup as the draught of God's judgment. Jesus' question 'are you able to drink the cup that I drink' draws on this judicial cup. The wrath-cup motif's Recurrence (Jeremiah 25, Isaiah 51) supports it.

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Mark 14:32-42 ?

Jesus' plea 'remove this cup from me' draws on the prophetic 'cup' of God's wrath and judgment, here Psalm 75's cup of foaming wine that the wicked must drink to the dregs. The metaphor of drinking a divinely appointed cup of suffering gives real volume and coheres with Mark's earlier cup-saying (10:38-39).

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Matt 20:20-23 ?

The cup of foaming wine of God's wrath that the wicked drink to the dregs; supplies the 'cup' = divine judgment imagery behind 20:22-23.

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Matt 26:36-46

'in the hand of the LORD there is a cup... the wicked of the earth shall drain it' supplies the cup-of-wrath image behind 'this cup' (vv39,42).

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Echo1

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

Rev 17:1–6 ?

'In the hand of the LORD is a cup of foaming wine... all the wicked of the earth shall drink it' — the cup-in-hand making the earth drink; reinforces the cup/intoxication network behind the harlot's golden cup. Hays: coherence, low distinctiveness. LXX Ps 74:9.

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Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

John 18:1-11

Jesus' 'the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?' draws on the prophetic cup of wrath, here the cup in the LORD's hand of foaming wine that the wicked must drain. The cup-of-judgment metaphor is the controlling image, and John's substitution of obedience-unto-death for the Synoptic prayer to remove the cup gives the figural reading high Volume and Coherence.

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