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Psalm 79:6

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

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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 Thess 4:1-8

Parallel to Jeremiah 10:25, 'the nations that do not know you,' the same formula identifying Gentiles by their ignorance of God. The two texts are nearly identical and both stand behind Paul's phrase 'who don't know God.'

High confidence
2 Thess 1:8-10

The plea to 'pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name' is the closest Psalter parallel to 1:8's vengeance on 'those who don't know God.' Together with Jeremiah 10:25 it supplies the formulaic designation of the wicked. High confidence as a shared source.

High confidence

Echo1

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

John 17:24-26 ?

'The world has not known you' (v25) echoes 'the nations that do not know you,' the contrast between God's people and the ignorant nations. Coherent with John's world/disciples antithesis but the phrasing is generic; low Volume.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 79
Psalm 79:9 2