“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
⛓ Read Isaiah 60 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you' underlies 'having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone' (v.11). Isa 60 is the controlling intertext for the city's radiance and is quarried throughout 21:23-26.
High confidence'The appearing of the glory of our great God' (v.13) draws on the glory of the LORD that rises and is seen upon his people while darkness covers the earth. An eschatological epiphany-of-glory source.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The dawn... will shine on those who sit in darkness' echoes Isaiah 60:1-2, 'Arise, shine, for your light has come... darkness shall cover the earth... but the Lord will arise upon you.' The light-rising-over-darkness imagery coheres with the eschatological-dawn theme.
Medium confidence'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you' supplies a glory-transformation backdrop for the bodies of the lowly being conformed to Christ's glory. Faint, supplementary to Daniel 12:3.
Low confidence