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Psalm 90:2

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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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.

Echo3

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

John 17:1-5

'Before the world existed' (v5) echoes 'before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth... from everlasting.' The temporal formula for divine pre-creation eternity coheres with the Son's claim to preexistent glory; Volume modest, supported by the same idiom in Wisdom traditions.

Medium confidence
John 17:24-26

'Before the foundation of the world' (v24) reuses the pre-creation eternity idiom of 'from everlasting... before... you had formed the earth.' Matches the temporal frame asserted of the Father-Son love and glory; moderate Volume via the recurring formula.

Medium confidence
John 8:48-59 ?

'Before the mountains were brought forth... from everlasting to everlasting you are God' parallels the pre-Abrahamic eternity asserted in v.58. Low Volume and verbal contact, but coheres with the claim to existence prior to creation/patriarch.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 90
Psalm 90:5-6 2Psalm 90:8 2