Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
⛓ Read Isaiah 55 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'I will give you the holy and sure blessings/mercies of David' (ta hosia Dauid ta pista) is quoted to prove the resurrection-incorruption, linking the everlasting covenant mercies promised to David to the risen Christ. Explicit LXX citation.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The offer of 'an everlasting covenant... the sure mercies of David' and the call to 'hear, and your soul shall live' resonate with John's 'God gave to us eternal life.' Hearing God's testimony issues in life. A faint resonance for life granted through receiving God's word.
Low confidenceA fainter source for ‘an eternal covenant’: Isa 55:3 LXX promises an ‘everlasting covenant’ (diathēkēn aiōnion), the same phrase Hebrews uses, and ties it to the Davidic (shepherd-king) mercies. Low volume and contested against Ezek 37 and Jer 32:40, but the exact phrase keeps it in a maximal inventory.
Low confidence