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Isaiah 52:9

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 2:36-38

Anna speaks of the child 'to all who were looking for the redemption (lytrosis) of Jerusalem,' echoing Isaiah's 'the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.' The redemption-of-Jerusalem phrase has direct Septuagintal availability and pairs with Simeon's 'consolation of Israel,' giving the pericope a strong Isaianic frame.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

2 Cor 1:3-7

'Break forth into joy... for YHWH has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem' ties comfort to redemption and corporate joy, paralleling Paul's link between shared suffering and shared comfort/salvation. The recurrence of the comfort-redemption pairing in Second Isaiah supports availability, though the verbal contact is lighter than 49:13 or 51:12.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 52
Isaiah 52:1 6Isaiah 52:3 3Isaiah 52:5 5Isaiah 52:6 2Isaiah 52:7 17Isaiah 52:10 5Isaiah 52:11 5Isaiah 52:13 11Isaiah 52:15 2