So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
⛓ Read Psalm 81 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.
'who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways' (v16) echoes God giving Israel 'up to their own hearts' lusts, and they walked in their own counsels.' Volume moderate (the idiom of being let to walk in one's own ways); Thematic Coherence strong (divine forbearance/handing-over of the nations). Contested between this and the Deut 32 nations-allotment tradition.
Medium confidence'So I gave them up (paredoka) to their own hearts' lust' is the divine-handing-over formula Paul triples ('God gave them up'). Strong verbal parallel to the paredoken auta refrain; judicial abandonment.
Medium confidenceThird 'God gave them up (to a reprobate mind)' continues the divine-abandonment formula of Ps 81:12 (LXX 80:13). Moderate verbal, strong thematic recurrence within the pericope-cluster.
Medium confidence