Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
⛓ Read Isaiah 40 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.
'Behold, the Lord GOD comes... his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.' Direct source for 'My reward is with me.' LXX and Hebrew agree (misthos).
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Behold, the Lord GOD comes... his reward is with him.' The coming-with-recompense formula introduced here ('Behold, I come quickly') is fully developed in 22:12; Isa 40:10 is its base text. LXX and Hebrew agree on misthos/reward.
Medium confidence