You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⛓ Read Isaiah 62 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.
Paul calls the Thessalonians his 'crown of rejoicing/boasting' (v. 19), echoing 'you shall be a crown of beauty (stephanos kallous) in the hand of the Lord.' Isaiah's image of a redeemed people as God's crown of glory coheres with Paul presenting his converts as his eschatological crown and glory (v. 20).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD' supplies the figural background for Paul's 'my joy and crown,' where a redeemed community is the eschatological adornment of its caretaker. Recurrence of the crown-of-glory image across Isaiah (28:5; 62:3) makes it available, though the volume here is low and the trope generic.
Low confidence