but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
⛓ Read Isaiah 11 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'The Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth' draws almost verbatim on the messianic ruler who 'with the breath of his lips shall kill the wicked.' Paul applies Isaiah's portrait of the slaying breath of the Branch directly to Christ's destruction of the lawless one.
High confidenceAllusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The sword/word 'out of his mouth' that judges fuses Isa 11:4's messianic 'rod of his mouth' with Isa 49:2. High thematic coherence on the judging messianic word; the two Isaiah texts together yield Revelation's recurring mouth-sword motif.
High confidence'he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked' - direct source of the sword 'out of his mouth' to 'strike the nations' (Rev 19:15). The LXX renders 'with the word of his mouth' (to logo tou stomatos), tightening the link to 'The Word of God' (v.13). Verbal volume + LXX coherence very high.
High confidenceThe messianic shoot strikes the earth 'with the rod of his mouth' and slays the wicked 'with the breath (pneumati) of his lips,' joining sword/word with Spirit (pneuma) precisely as Eph 6:17 ('sword of the Spirit... word of God'). The Spirit-word-judgment cluster strengthens the allusion alongside Isaiah 49:2.
Medium confidenceThe messianic "rod of his mouth" / "breath of his lips" that slays the wicked underwrites "I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth." Medium confidence; reinforces the Davidic-judge typology. The LXX (πατάξει γῆν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ) sharpens the speech-as-sword motif.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Slaying the wicked with the breath/word of his mouth - the sword 'which came out of his mouth' kills 'the rest' (Rev 19:21), recapitulating 19:15 and its Isa 11:4 source.
Medium confidence