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Psalm 98:9

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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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.

Acts 17:22-31

'He comes to judge the earth; he will judge the world with righteousness' is the third near-identical parallel to v.31, confirming a fixed liturgical formula behind Paul's words.

High confidence

Echo2

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

Rev 19:11-13

'he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity' (LXX 97:9) - doublet of 96:13 reinforcing the righteous-judgment formula of v.11.

Medium confidence
Acts 10:34-43 ?

'He comes to judge the earth... the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity' undergirds the designation of the risen one as eschatological Judge in v42.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 98
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