Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
⛓ Read Isaiah 42 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.
'Who is blind but my servant... blind as the LORD's messenger?' — prophetic 'blind' leadership behind 'blind guides of the blind' (Mt 15:14).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
2:19 the irony deepens with Isa 42:19, 'who is blind but my servant... who is blind as the dedicated one?' — the would-be guide of the blind is himself the blind servant; a faint counter-echo within the same Isaianic context.
Low confidence