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Isaiah 40:4

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

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.

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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.

1 Cor 13:2 ?

'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
Matt 17:14-21 ?

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