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Isaiah 51:17

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

10 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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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.

Allusion8

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

John 18:1-11

'You have drunk... the cup of his wrath, the bowl of staggering' names the cup Jerusalem must drink, the background for the cup the Father gives Jesus to drink in the people's place. The Isaianic cup of staggering is a primary source of the metaphor, and Jesus' willing acceptance coheres with the Servant's vicarious suffering.

High confidence
Matt 26:36-46

'let this cup pass away from me' (v39) draws on the prophetic 'cup of staggering / cup of his wrath' that Jerusalem must drink; Jesus shrinks from and then accepts the cup of divine judgment.

High confidence
Rev 14:8–12

'The cup of his wrath... the bowl of the cup of staggering' which the nations drink — behind 'the cup of his anger' and the wine of wrath imagery. Verbal coherence.

High confidence
Rev 16:17-21

'You who have drunk... the cup of his wrath, the bowl of staggering.' Reinforces the wrath-cup imagery applied to Babylon (16:19); verbal cup-of-wrath chain shared with Jer 25 and Rev 14:10.

High confidence
Luke 22:39-46

Jerusalem having drunk 'the cup of his wrath... the cup of staggering' supplies the wrath-cup imagery behind Jesus' petition. Coherent with the Gethsemane cup as the suffering Jesus is asked to drink, with reasonable verbal distinctiveness ('cup').

Medium confidence
Mark 10:35-45

Jerusalem has drunk 'the cup of his wrath... the bowl of staggering,' the cup-of-judgment imagery behind 'the cup that I drink.' Jesus takes upon himself the cup of divine wrath the city must drink. The cup as wrath to be consumed coheres with the passion's substitutionary logic.

Medium confidence
Mark 14:32-42 ?

Isaiah's 'cup of his wrath,' the 'cup of staggering' that Jerusalem has drunk to the dregs, is a leading source for the cup Jesus prays to have removed. The strong prophetic-cup tradition of divine judgment-wine coheres with Jesus drinking the cup on behalf of the 'many,' reinforcing the wrath-cup reading.

Medium confidence
Matt 20:20-23

'the cup that I am about to drink' (20:22) is the prophetic 'cup of wrath/staggering' that Jerusalem drinks (Isa 51:17,22); Jesus takes upon himself the cup of judgment, the dominant OT background for the passion-cup.

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Eph 5:8-14

'Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem' contributes the awakening-summons cadence behind 'Awake, you who sleep.' Medium volume; one of the clustered Isaian wake-up calls underlying the v.14 hymn.

Medium confidence
Rom 13:11-14 ?

'Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem' — the prophetic call to awaken to the hour of salvation parallels 'it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep' (v.11).

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 51
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