I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
⛓ Read Isaiah 61 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will greatly rejoice in the LORD... he has clothed me with garments of salvation... as a bridegroom decks himself... and as a bride adorns herself' - the source of bridal self-adornment ('his wife has made herself ready') joined to rejoicing (Rev 19:7-8). Verbal + thematic coherence high.
High confidenceBridal-adornment simile (v.2): 'as a bridegroom decks himself... and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels' — close conceptual and verbal match for 'prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.'
Medium confidenceBridal imagery resumed (v.9 'the wife, the Lamb's bride') — cf. 21:2; the bride 'adorned' theme carries into the jewel-glory description (v.11).
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'My soul shall exult in my God' (Isaiah 61:10) within the Spirit-anointed-good-news passage contributes to the rejoicing diction of the canticle's opening. Thematic coherence with eschatological salvation supports the echo.
Medium confidence'He has clothed me with the garments of salvation... as a bridegroom decks himself' — the salvific 'putting on' of clothing as a figure for new status anticipates 'put on the Lord Jesus Christ' (v.14).
Medium confidence'Put on Christ' (v.27) may echo the clothing-with-salvation imagery of Isa 61:10 ('he has clothed me with garments of salvation') and the robing motif of Zechariah 3:4. The metaphor of investiture is available in the prophets but the contact is thematic, not verbal. Contested and faint.
Low confidence'He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation... as a bridegroom decketh himself' — wedding-garment imagery (22:11-12) as the required clothing of righteousness/salvation for the marriage feast.
Low confidenceGarments of salvation / robe of righteousness as eschatological clothing of the redeemed. Faint thematic resonance with white garments of the worthy; no distinctive verbal link.
Low confidenceThe garment of salvation/robe of righteousness may faintly inform the 'long white robe' given to each martyr as vindication; verbal volume is low and white-robe imagery is widespread, so the link is tentative.
Low confidence