Today, oh that you would hear his voice! Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness
⛓ Read Psalm 95 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.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The homily keeps re-sounding its own text — re-citing ‘Today…’ at v. 15 and then mining each phrase (‘today,’ ‘harden,’ ‘rest,’ ‘they could not enter’). Recurrence is doing the interpretive work (Hays): the same verses return until the warning lands.
High confidenceRe-cited a final time and dated: ‘through David so long a time afterward.’ Because the psalm still says ‘today’ centuries after Joshua, the promised rest was never exhausted by entering Canaan — a chronological argument from a single recurring word. The pun underneath: ‘Joshua’ and ‘Jesus’ are one name in Greek, so the rest Joshua could not give, Jesus does.
High confidence‘We have had good news preached to us, even as they also did’ (v. 2) keeps the ‘today’ frame of the homily's governing text alive even before it is re-cited in 4:7. Low verbal volume here, but the recurrence of Ps 95 across chs 3–4 (Hays) licenses hearing its opening summons under the contrast between the two audiences who ‘heard.’
Medium confidence