Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'My eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared before the face of all peoples' renders Isaiah's 'all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God,' where the LORD bares his arm 'before all the nations.' The seeing-of-God's-salvation-before-all-nations cluster is verbally and thematically exact.
High confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' reinforces the Gentile-salvation declaration; the phrase 'salvation of God' coheres closely with Paul's closing words.
Medium confidence'All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' supports the world-wide Savior confession in v42. Faint but coherent with the universalizing of salvation.
Low confidence"All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God" (Isaiah 52:10 LXX) closely parallels Luke's extended clause "all flesh shall see the salvation of God," reinforcing the universal-salvation reading. Likely a reinforcing intratextual Isaianic resonance Luke exploits rather than a separate citation; low and contested.
Low confidenceSalvation 'to all men' (v.11) echoes the bared arm of the LORD by which 'all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.' A faint universal-salvation echo supporting v.11.
Low confidence