Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
⛓ Read Psalm 94 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'O LORD, God of vengeance' (LXX Ps 93:1) supplies the divine title 'avenger' that Paul applies. The psalm's plea for God to requite oppressors parallels Paul's warning that the Lord avenges the defrauded.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'O LORD, God of vengeance' confirms that retribution belongs to God alone — the theological premise of 12:19 that Paul anchors in Deuteronomy 32:35; possible secondary resonance.
Medium confidence