and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
⛓ Read Isaiah 58 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The blessed will be 'like a spring of water, whose waters fail not' — the interior, never-failing spring matches v14's 'well of water springing up to eternal life.' Coherence high on the perpetual-inner-spring image; Volume modest.
Medium confidence'You shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters do not fail' supplies the image of the believer as an unfailing inward source ('from within him will flow'), matching the interiority of v.38. Isaiah's spring-that-fails-not coheres with the Spirit's permanence (v.39). A plausible component of John's composite scriptural citation.
Medium confidence