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Psalm 89:9

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

6 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

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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.

Allusion3

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Mark 4:35-41

'You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you still them' attributes to YHWH precisely the sea-rebuking power Jesus wields in 4:39. The distinctive divine-warrior motif of mastering the chaotic sea makes this a strong echo undergirding the disciples' question 'Who then is this?'

High confidence
Luke 8:22-25

'You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them' is a near-verbal parallel to Jesus rebuking the raging water (8:24). Reinforces the YHWH-as-sea-ruler matrix; Coherence strong, Volume moderate.

Medium confidence
Matt 14:22-33

'You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.' The stilling of the contrary wind when Jesus enters the boat enacts the Creator's sovereignty over the sea's tumult ascribed to the LORD.

Medium confidence

Echo3

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

Mark 6:45-52 ?

'You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.' Jesus' calming of the wind and waves manifests this sovereign rule over the sea. Recurrence of the God-rules-the-sea theme across the Psalter strengthens the echo.

Medium confidence
Matt 8:23-27

'You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them' supplies further divine sea-mastery coloring; recurrence of the YHWH-over-chaos-waters motif.

Medium confidence
Rev 13:1-4 ?

The beast rising from the sea evokes the chaos-sea / Leviathan tradition where YHWH rules the raging sea (Ps 89:9-10, crushing Rahab). Figural background to the dragon-sea-beast complex.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 89
Psalm 89:3-4 3Psalm 89:7 2Psalm 89:26-27 2Psalm 89:27 4