Psalm 71:7
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Cross-references
Psalm 62:7 directly echoes the refuge language — 'my refuge is in God' — reinforcing the psalmist's trust.
Psalm 142:5 repeats the refuge declaration — 'You are my refuge' — matching the second half of Psalm 71:7.
Jeremiah 16:19 calls God 'my refuge in the day of distress,' directly paralleling the psalmist's strong refuge.
In 1 Corinthians 4:9, Paul uses the same 'spectacle' imagery — apostles are made a public wonder, echoing the psalmist's experience.
2 Samuel 22:3 uses the same refuge imagery — 'my rock, my refuge' — echoing the psalmist's declaration.
Isaiah 52:14 says many were astonished at the servant, just as the psalmist is a wonder to many — a shared theme of being a sign.
Hebrews 10:33 describes being publicly exposed to reproach — directly parallel to the psalmist being a 'sign to many'. Both depict suffering as a spectacle.
Isaiah 8:18 uses the same word 'portent' for Isaiah and his children as signs from God, mirroring the psalmist's experience.
Zechariah 3:8 calls the priests 'men wondered at' (KJV), using the same 'wonder' term as the psalmist's self-description.
Luke 2:34 describes Jesus as a sign opposed, similar to the psalmist being a portent to many—a typological foreshadowing.
In 2 Corinthians 4:8-12, Paul describes apostolic hardships that mirror the psalmist's paradoxical state of being a wonder yet having God as refuge.
In 2 Corinthians 6:8-10, Paul's list of paradoxes (dying yet living) parallels the psalmist's identity as a wonder with God as refuge.