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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 63:10 → Psalm 78:40

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 63:10BSB

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Earlier text

Psalm 78:40BSB

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Significance

Isaiah 63:10 states that Israel "rebelled (מָרוּ, maru) and grieved (עִצְּבוּ, itsevu) His Holy Spirit," while Psalm 78:40 uses nearly identical language: "How often they rebelled (יַמְרוּהוּ, yamruhu) against Him in the wilderness and grieved (יַעֲצִיבוּהוּ, ya'atsibuhu) Him in the desert!" Both passages use the roots מרה (marah, "rebel") and עצב (atsav, "grieve/pain"), and both locate Israel's rebellion in the wilderness wandering period. Isaiah's distinctive contribution is identifying the object of grieving as "His Holy Spirit" (רוּחַ קָדְשׁוֹ, ruach qodsho) — one of only three OT occurrences of this phrase — personalizing the divine grief beyond what the Psalm expresses.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy