Thus says Yahweh, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
⛓ Read Isaiah 66 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' is a verbatim citation of Isaiah's oracle against confining God to a temple.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool' — direct source for swearing 'neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, his footstool.'
High confidence"Heaven is my throne" directly grounds v22: to swear by heaven is to swear by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool' grounds the prohibition of swearing 'by heaven or by earth,' since both belong to God.
Low confidence