Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
⛓ Read Isaiah 43 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.
'Behold, I am making all things new' (v.5) draws on 'Behold, I am doing a new thing' (idou ego poio kaina, LXX) — the 'behold... new' formula. High verbal contact with the LXX of Isa 43:19.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Behold, I will do a new thing' — faint resonance with Revelation's pervasive newness (new name, new Jerusalem in 3:12; 'new' here only ambient). Diffuse; included for maximal inventory.
Low confidence