For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
⛓ Read Isaiah 63 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.
"You, LORD, are our Father" grounds the direct address "Our Father." Isaiah's fatherhood-of-God language is a primary Second-Temple availability for the prayer's opening invocation.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"You, O LORD, are our Father" supports the one-Father claim of v9 against human honorifics.
Low confidence'You, O LORD, are our Father' — Israel's corporate address of God as Father — stands behind the Spirit-prompted filial cry 'Abba! Father!' (v.15).
Low confidence