In Pulp Fiction, Jules Winnfield recites “Ezekiel 25:17” before a killing.
Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules, a hitman who delivers the passage with his partner Vincent Vega before executing a target. The speech describes a righteous man surrounded by evil and ends with the line, “And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”
The film presents the passage as Jules’s ritual, but its wording is not a verbatim quotation of the biblical verse. Ezekiel 25:17 in many English Bibles is a short statement about divine vengeance against the Philistines. The extended speech combines biblical language with material written for the film and earlier screen versions of the story.
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote Pulp Fiction, which was released in 1994. The citation is often misremembered as a Psalm because of its religious tone. The specific reference Jules announces is Ezekiel 25:17.