“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.
⛓ Read Isaiah 51 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Pursue righteousness' resonates with Isaiah's address to those who pursue righteousness and seek the Lord. A secondary prophetic backdrop to the chain of virtues to pursue.
Low confidence'Pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD' offers a Septuagintal background of pressing/pursuing after a goal that resonates with Paul's 'I press on toward the goal.' Faint, athletic-pursuit imagery is widespread.
Low confidencev.31-32 Israel 'pursuing/following after' a law of righteousness faintly echoes Isaiah's address to 'you who pursue righteousness, who seek the LORD,' inverted: Israel pursued by works, not faith, and so failed to attain it.
Low confidence'You who pursue righteousness, who seek the LORD' — the verb pair pursue/seek righteousness underlies Paul's diagnosis that Israel 'sought to establish their own righteousness.' Thematic resonance with Isaianic righteousness language but no verbal quotation; disputed.
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