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Psalm 98:1

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 5:9–10

Hays: high — 'They sang a new song' takes up the formulaic 'new song' (shir chadash / asma kainon) of the Psalter, sung in response to God's saving victory. Psalm 98 is the strongest match because the new song celebrates accomplished 'salvation,' paralleling the Lamb's redemptive victory. LXX 'asma kainon' matches Revelation's 'ōdēn kainēn.'

High confidence

Echo3

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

1 John 5:1-5 ?

'This is the victory that has overcome the world' draws on the psalmic celebration that God's 'right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory.' The vocabulary of decisive divine victory is transferred to faith's triumph over the world. The believer shares in a conquest that is ultimately God's own.

Medium confidence
Rev 14:1–5

'Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things' — victory/redemption framing of the new song; coheres with 'redeemed out of the earth.'

Medium confidence
Rom 15:1-6 ?

'Sing to your name'/glorify-with-one-mouth language (15:6) and the catena's Gentile-praise theme that follows resonates with the Psalter's call to sing a new song before the nations; faint and thematic, anticipatory of the 15:9-12 chain.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 98
Psalm 98:2 3Psalm 98:9 3