For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
⛓ Read Isaiah 13 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 sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light' is near-verbatim from Isaiah 13:10, 'the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light,' the day-of-the-LORD oracle against Babylon. The catastrophic dimming of the luminaries is the lead element of Mark's cosmic-collapse cluster; highest volume in the constellation.
High confidenceAllusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
In the Day-of-the-Lord oracle the stars, constellations, sun, and moon withhold their light. Jesus' 'signs in the sun, moon, and stars' draws directly on this prophetic darkening of the heavenly bodies. High coherence with the standard cosmic-collapse catalog.
High confidence'the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light' is a near-quotation of Isaiah 13:10, 'the stars of the heavens... will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light,' the cosmic collapse in the Day-of-the-LORD oracle against Babylon.
High confidenceOn the day of the LORD against Babylon, 'the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark... and the moon will not shed its light'—a standard darkened-luminaries oracle behind v. 12; strong thematic coherence with judgment-day cosmology.
High confidenceDay-of-the-LORD oracle against Babylon: 'the sun will be dark... the moon will not give its light.' Primary source for sun/moon/stars darkened (v. 12); coheres with Revelation's Babylon-judgment trajectory.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The sun will be dark at its rising' in Isaiah's oracle of cosmic upheaval contributes to the same prophetic darkening-of-the-luminaries tradition. Its availability strengthens the eschatological coloring of the crucifixion darkness, though it is not specifically cited here.
Low confidence