Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
⛓ Read Isaiah 52 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'There shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean' underlies 'there will in no way enter into it anything profane' (v.27); the holy city's purity-boundary.
High confidence'Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion' is the paired imperatival summons (egeirou) that, with 60:1, shapes the hymnic 'Awake... and Christ will shine on you.' Coherence with the awakening-then-glory sequence is strong.
Medium confidence'Awake, awake... O Jerusalem, the holy city; put on your beautiful garments' — behind the 'holy city' title (v.2) and the adornment imagery; recurs at 21:27 ('nothing unclean shall enter').
Medium confidence'Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments' — combines the summons to wake and the imperative to 'put on,' both present in Paul's 'awaken out of sleep' (v.11) and 'put on the armor of light' / 'put on the Lord Jesus Christ' (vv.12,14).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The contrast of 'unclean' versus 'holy' applied to the household faintly recalls the holiness/uncleanness boundary language of Isa 52:1 ('no more shall the uncircumcised and the unclean enter you'). The link is lexical-thematic only (clean/unclean, holy) and very faint; contested.
Low confidenceIsaiah's warning that the 'uncircumcised and unclean' shall no more enter Zion supplies background for Paul's reversal of who constitutes the holy, worshiping community. Faint.
Low confidence