For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
⛓ Read Isaiah 54 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah's 'the mountains may depart' as a figure of cosmic upheaval feeds the same stock of immovable-object-displaced imagery that the mustard-seed/sycamore saying exploits. Faint and contested.
Low confidenceIsaiah's 'the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart' offers another prophetic image of removable mountains contrasted with steadfast faith in God. The link to Jesus' 'have faith in God' plus mountain-removal is faint and one of several candidate backgrounds, hence contested.
Low confidence