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Echoes of Revelation
Revelation never quotes the Old Testament outright, yet no New Testament book refers to it more. See both texts side by side, why they don’t match, and what John does with them.
Revelation 7:10, salvation belongs to our God
The crowd's shout that salvation belongs to God echoes the closing line of Psalm 3, a prayer for rescue from enemies.
Revelation 7:10, in every translation this tool compares.
A team that chants a line from an old anthem is claiming its story. Psalm 3 is David's prayer while enemies surround him. It ends by saying that salvation belongs to the Lord. The crowd before the throne shouts almost the same words. They credit their rescue to God, seated on his throne, and to the Lamb.
Salvation said to belong to God. The Greek of Psalm 3:8 (3:9 in Greek numbering) reads tou kyriou he soteria; John has he soteria to theo hemon.
The psalm credits the Lord alone. John's crowd credits God on the throne and the Lamb together. The psalm is one man's prayer under attack; John's is a shout of a crowd that has come through.
Beale reads salvation here as rescue and victory over the powers that tried to break their faith. The victory belongs to God, not to them, and John gives the Lamb the same share as God.
Not a direct quotation. The sources offer the psalm only as a comparison, and the words are common in worship.
The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible compares Psalm 3:8 and 62:11, and the NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible compares Psalm 3:8 with Exodus 15:2. The CSB Study Bible's cross-references at 7:10 list Psalm 3:8 among many texts. Beale reads soteria here in its sense of deliverance and victory, citing Psalm 3 and its context of rescue from enemies, and Jonah 2:9. In the vault's Septuagint, the psalm verse reads tou kyriou he soteria. The grade is possible: the wording is close, but the phrase is short and common, and the sources only compare it.
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- NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, note on Revelation 7:10
- NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible, note on Revelation 7:10
- CSB Study Bible, cross-references at Revelation 7:10
- G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation (New International Greek Testament Commentary), comment on 7:10
- Septuagint, Psalm 3:8, Interlinear Greek-English Septuagint
- SBL Greek New Testament (MorphGNT), Revelation 7:10
