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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 43:19-20 → Genesis 1

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 43:19-20BSB

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.

Earlier text

Significance

Isaiah 43:19-20 describes a transformation of the natural world — "water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert" — that recalls the creative ordering of Genesis 1 where God gathered waters and brought forth dry land (Gen 1:9-10). The passage reverses the expected relationship: instead of separating water from land, God brings water into dry land. The mention of wild animals honoring God (43:20) echoes Genesis 1's portrayal of all creatures under divine sovereignty. Isaiah presents Israel's restoration as a new act of creation that transforms the desert landscape into a paradise, recapitulating the original movement from formless waste to ordered abundance.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 2

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