Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
⛓ Read Psalm 77 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Your way was in the sea, your paths in the great waters,' celebrating God's saving passage through the sea at the Exodus. Jesus' path across the water reprises Yahweh's mastery of the deep in deliverance. Strong thematic coherence with the divine sea-crossing motif.
High confidence'Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters, yet your footprints were unseen.' God's path through the sea (in the Exodus retelling) underlies Jesus' way across the waters; the psalm makes sea-treading a uniquely divine mode of salvation.
High confidence'Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters, yet your footprints were unseen' — a hymn of God's exodus march across the deep. Coheres with Jesus pathless on the water; the psalm's exodus frame fits John's Passover setting.
Medium confidence