“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized. Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
⛓ Read Isaiah 8 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.
1 Peter 3:14-15 quotes Isaiah 8:12-13: 'Do not fear what they fear, neither be troubled (Isa 8:12), but sanctify the LORD of hosts (Isa 8:13)' — Peter christologizes it to 'sanctify the Lord [Christ] God in your hearts.' The Isaianic 'do not fear, do not be in dread, but the LORD of hosts him you shall regard as holy' becomes the charter for fearless witness under hostility. Formal quotation woven into the exhortation.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah's oracle—'do not fear what they fear... the LORD of hosts, him you shall regard as holy, let him be your fear'—is the structural template for Jesus' contrast between fearing human killers and fearing the One who can cast into Gehenna. The transfer of fear from men to God is verbally and thematically precise, giving high Volume and Coherence.
High confidence'Neither fear ye their fear... Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear.' Isaiah's command to fear God rather than the conspiracy of men is the precise logic of 10:28: do not fear those who kill the body, but fear him who can destroy soul and body. The double 'do not fear / rather fear' structure is Isaianic.
High confidence