“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’
⛓ Read Isaiah 41 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He has given help to Israel, his servant' draws on Isaiah 41:8-9, 'But you, Israel, my servant... whom I have taken... I have chosen you and not cast you off.' The Israel-my-servant designation plus God's helping/upholding (Isaiah 41:10) gives high volume for the canticle's turn to corporate Israel.
High confidence'Israel, my chosen... I have chosen you and not cast you off' parallels Paul's 'God chose you... for salvation' through calling. The prophetic election-and-call pattern is applied to the church.
Medium confidence‘He gives help to the offspring of Abraham’ (v. 16) echoes Isa 41:8–9, where God ‘takes hold of’ (epilambanomai, the very verb Hebrews uses) the chosen ‘offspring of Abraham’ his servant. The shared rare verb plus the ‘seed of Abraham’ phrase gives real verbal volume; thematic coherence (election, help, servant) is strong, so the allusion is widely heard (Beale & Carson).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Israel my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my beloved... I have chosen you and not cast you off' clusters chosenness and divine love exactly as Paul does. The dense overlap of election + beloved makes this a plausible secondary source alongside Deuteronomy 7.
Medium confidence