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Isaiah 40:2

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

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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.

Echo2

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

Rev 18:4-8 ?

Jerusalem 'received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins' — the 'double' (diplous) language is inverted: Babylon now drinks the double. Verbal contact on 'double'; figural reversal. Hays: dissimilarity makes the allusion plausible though contested.

Medium confidence
Luke 2:36-38 ?

'Looking for the redemption of Jerusalem' also resonates with Isaiah's address to Jerusalem that her warfare is ended and iniquity pardoned. It belongs to the same Isaiah 40-52 consolation matrix as Simeon's oracle; faint as an independent source but coherent with the cluster.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 40
Isaiah 40:1 5Isaiah 40:3 9Isaiah 40:3-5 2Isaiah 40:4 2Isaiah 40:5 2Isaiah 40:6-8 7Isaiah 40:8 5Isaiah 40:10 2Isaiah 40:11 6Isaiah 40:13 2Isaiah 40:31 3