He will take his jealousy as complete armor, And will make the whole creation his weapons for vengeance on his enemies: He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, And will array himself with judgement unfeigned as with a helmet; He will take holiness as an invincible shield, And he will sharpen stern wrath for a sword: And the world will go forth with him to fight against his insensate foes.
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 5 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.
Wisdom expands Isaiah 59:17 into a full panoply: the Lord 'will take his zeal as a panoply (panoplian) and arm creation,' donning righteousness as breastplate and impartial judgment as helmet. Paul's distinctive word panoplia and the assembled set of pieces show direct dependence on this Second-Temple development, not Isaiah alone.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God 'will take his zeal as a panoply' and arm creation as weapons against his foes; this Second-Temple militarization of divine 'weapons' parallels Paul's 'weapons of our warfare... mighty before God.' Availability and coherence support an echo of the divine-armor topos, though Paul's vocabulary differs.
Low confidence