Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed; behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
⛓ Read Isaiah 65 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.
Isaiah's eschatological reversal — God's servants will eat, rejoice and sing while the wicked hunger, are ashamed and wail — supplies the exact hunger/fullness and weeping/laughing antitheses structuring Luke's blessings and woes. Strong Coherence with the following woes section.
Medium confidenceThe full/hungry and laughing/mourning reversals in the woes mirror Isaiah's oracle that the wicked who feast will hunger and those who rejoice will be put to shame and wail. Strong structural Coherence with the beatitudes that precede.
Medium confidence