Text: Isaiah 63:13
OT Text Referred to: Isaiah 51:10
Subject: led them through the depths
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology
Significance: Isaiah 63:13 recalls God leading Israel "through the depths" (בַּתְּהֹמוֹת, batehomot), while Isaiah 51:10 asks "Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep (תְּהוֹם רַבָּה, tehom rabbah), who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?" Both passages within Isaiah use the exodus sea-crossing as the basis for an appeal to God to act again. Isaiah 51:10 is a direct petition — "Awake, awake, O arm of the LORD" — using the tehom vocabulary to recall the original miracle. Isaiah 63:13 turns this same memory into a lament, asking "Where is the One who led them through the depths?" The two passages together form a literary arc within Second and Third Isaiah: the confident appeal of 51:10 becomes the anguished question of 63:13, both grounded in the same exodus deep-water imagery.
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Text: Isaiah 51:10
OT Text Referred to: Isaiah 63:13
Subject: Creation account and divine ordering
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology
Significance: Isaiah 51:10 asks "Was it not You who dried up the sea (יָם, yam), the waters of the great deep (תְּהוֹם רַבָּה, tehom rabbah)?" and Isaiah 63:13 answers the same memory: "He led them through the depths (תְּהֹמוֹת, tehomot)." Both passages recall the sea-crossing with shared vocabulary of the "deep" (tehom/tehomot), but from different rhetorical positions — 51:10 is a prayer pleading for God to act again as He did at the sea; 63:13 is a penitential recollection of past faithfulness in the context of present distress. Together they show how the exodus sea-crossing functions as the central paradigm Isaiah repeatedly invokes to ground hope for future deliverance in the memory of past salvation.