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Isaiah 26:20

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Heb 10:32–39 ?

‘In a very little while’ (v. 37) appears to be a conflated lead-in: Hebrews prefixes Hab 2:3 with the ‘yet a little while’ of Isa 26:20 LXX (‘hide for a little moment until the indignation is past’). The borrowed phrase, and the article on ‘the coming one,’ make the prophecy point to Christ's coming — a Greek-text move (availability/coherence).

Medium confidence
John 16:16-22

'Hide yourselves for a little while (mikron) until the indignation passes' is the closest LXX source for the repeated 'a little while' bracketing distress before vindication. The mikron-then-deliverance pattern coheres tightly with 16:16-19.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 6:5-8 ?

'Enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you' — striking verbal overlap with 'enter into your inner room, and having shut your door,' though the contexts differ (hiding from wrath vs. private prayer).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 26
Isaiah 26:3 3Isaiah 26:17 3Isaiah 26:19 17Isaiah 26:20-21 2