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Isaiah 13:9

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Thess 1:9-10

'The day of YHWH comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation' is a paradigmatic Day-of-wrath oracle feeding Paul's 'wrath to come.' The eschatological orge directed at the nations coheres with the deliverance of believers; a solid secondary source for the wrath motif.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 3:1-12 ?

'The wrath to come' invokes the prophetic Day of the LORD as burning wrath against the wicked (Isa 13:9 'the day of the LORD comes, cruel with wrath'). Thematic coherence with John's eschatological judgment preaching; no single source verbally dominant.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 13
Isaiah 13:6 2Isaiah 13:8 3Isaiah 13:10 6Isaiah 13:21 2