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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 18:6 → Psalm 137:8

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 18:6BSB

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

Earlier text

Psalm 137:8BSB

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Significance

Psalm 137:8 pronounces, "O daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us." Revelation 18:6 echoes this lex talionis principle: "Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup." Both texts invoke the principle of proportionate retribution against Babylon for her treatment of God's people. The Psalmist's imprecation, born from the anguish of exile, receives its eschatological answer in the bowl judgments. The escalation from "repay" to "double" intensifies the principle — eschatological Babylon's guilt exceeds historical Babylon's. This allusion validates the imprecatory Psalms by showing that their cries for justice find fulfillment in God's final judgment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy