Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The LORD takes the cup of staggering from Jerusalem's hand and gives it to her tormentors; Jesus, drinking the cup, figurally takes it back so the people need not drink. The removal-and-transfer logic coheres with the substitution theme, supplementing 51:17 as the cup-of-wrath source.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The LORD's promise to take 'the cup of staggering' out of Jerusalem's hand resonates inversely: Jesus asks the cup be removed yet drinks it. Recurrence of the cup-of-wrath motif across Isaiah 51 strengthens the allusion cluster.
Medium confidenceThe cup of staggering/wrath transferred from Zion to her tormentors — reinforces the reversal whereby the persecutors now drink God's wrath. Companion to Isa 51:17.
Medium confidence