Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Every mountain and hill shall be made low' supplies the eschatological image of mountains brought down before the coming of God. Paul's hyperbole of faith leveling mountains coheres with this prophetic flattening of obstacles, though the link is thematic rather than verbal.
Low confidence'Every mountain and hill made low.' The mountain-moving saying may draw on eschatological mountain-leveling imagery as a figure of God overcoming all obstacles. Faint.
Low confidence