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Isaiah 29:10

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rom 11:1-10

Formula-cited ('as it is written') in v.8: 'God gave them a spirit of stupor (pneuma katanyxeos)' is verbatim from Isa 29:10 LXX, 'the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep.' Supplies the head phrase of the conflated citation about Israel's hardening.

High confidence

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

2 Thess 2:11-12

The Lord pouring out a 'spirit of deep sleep,' closing eyes, parallels the strong delusion God sends so that they believe what is false. Judicial stupefaction is the shared idea.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 29
Isaiah 29:13 6Isaiah 29:14 5Isaiah 29:16 2Isaiah 29:18 9Isaiah 29:18-19 3Isaiah 29:23 4