to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah names the redeemed 'oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.' Paul's image of the church as God's planting that God himself grows for his glory closely matches this 'planting of the LORD' motif. The shared theology that God, not the human planter, is the agent of growth strengthens coherence; the link is allusive rather than quoted.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's repeated 'thanksgivings to God' and the people's glorifying God for the gift resonate with Isaiah's vision of the redeemed bringing praise and being called 'oaks of righteousness... that he may be glorified.' The link is thematic (almsgiving issuing in doxology) rather than verbal, so volume is faint. Flagged because Isaiah supplies the broader glory-and-righteousness horizon of the chapter.
Low confidence'Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD' — God's planting motif resonant with Mt 15:13.
Low confidence'garment of praise' / 'oaks of righteousness' contributes to the righteousness-as-garment idea of v.8; faint, subsidiary to 61:10.
Low confidence