Thus says Yahweh: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.
⛓ Read Isaiah 45 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The outsider's confession that 'God is among you indeed' (14:25) echoes Isaiah's prophecy that the nations will bow down and confess of Israel, 'God is in you only, and there is no other God.' Both involve Gentiles falling down and acknowledging the true God's presence among his people; the eschatological-pilgrimage frame matches Paul's scene of conviction precisely.
High confidenceForeigners 'come over... bow down... make supplication: Surely God is in you.' Submission-of-the-nations-to-Zion topos underlying 3:9. Hays: recurrence (Rev clusters Isaianic Zion-pilgrimage texts).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"God is in you only, and there is no other, no god besides him" reinforces the exclusive-monotheism cluster behind v.4. Faint additional witness within Isaiah's monotheistic oracles. Low volume; included for the maximal sweep.
Low confidence