diff --git a/src/pkgcheck/bash/__init__.py b/src/pkgcheck/bash/__init__.py
index 0b5486b40..020cc4128 100644
--- a/src/pkgcheck/bash/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pkgcheck/bash/__init__.py
@@ -10,15 +10,39 @@
 try:
     from tree_sitter import QueryCursor
 
-    def query(query_str: str) -> "QueryCursor":
+    def unstable_query(query_str: str) -> "QueryCursor":
         return QueryCursor(Query(lang, query_str))
 except ImportError:  # tree-sitter < 0.25
     QueryCursor = Query
-    query = lang.query
+    unstable_query = lang.query
 
 
 parser = Parser(language=lang)
 
+
+class SortedQueryCursor:
+    """
+    Sort query results by line and column. It's been observed that
+    query results from tree-sitter are not consistently returned in
+    the same order, so this class acts as a decorator for QueryCursor
+    to sort the returned captures.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, query_cursor: QueryCursor):
+        self._query_cursor = query_cursor
+
+    def captures(self, node):
+        caps = self._query_cursor.captures(node)
+        return {
+            key: sorted(nodes, key=lambda n: (n.start_point.row, n.start_point.column))
+            for key, nodes in caps.items()
+        }
+
+
+def query(query_str: str):
+    return SortedQueryCursor(unstable_query(query_str))
+
+
 # various parse tree queries
 cmd_query = query("(command) @call")
 func_query = query("(function_definition) @func")
@@ -39,14 +63,14 @@ def node_str(self, node):
         """Return the ebuild string associated with a given parse tree node."""
         return self.data[node.start_byte : node.end_byte].decode("utf8")
 
-    def global_query(self, query: QueryCursor):
+    def global_query(self, query: QueryCursor | SortedQueryCursor):
         """Run a given parse tree query returning only those nodes in global scope."""
         for x in self.tree.root_node.children:
             # skip nodes in function scope
             if x.type != "function_definition":
                 yield from chain.from_iterable(query.captures(x).values())
 
-    def func_query(self, query: QueryCursor):
+    def func_query(self, query: QueryCursor | SortedQueryCursor):
         """Run a given parse tree query returning only those nodes in function scope."""
         for x in self.tree.root_node.children:
             # only return nodes in function scope