The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day. For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low: For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan, For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, For every lofty tower, for every […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 2 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah's oracle that 'the haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the LORD alone exalted,' targeting 'every one that is proud and lofty' and 'every high tower,' directly underwrites Paul's 'every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God.' The shared lexicon of loftiness/exaltation humbled before God gives high volume and thematic coherence.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Day of the LORD theme that 'the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone exalted' resonates with v12.
Low confidence