Later text
Isaiah 63:14BSB
Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
Isaiah 63:14BSB
Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
Earlier text
Psalm 78:52BSB
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Isaiah 63:14 describes God guiding Israel to rest (נוּחַ, nuach): "Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest (תְּנִיחֶנּוּ, tenichenu)." Psalm 78:52 uses shepherd imagery for the same wilderness leading: "He led out His people like sheep (כַּצֹּאן, katson) and guided them like a flock in the wilderness." Both passages present the exodus journey as God shepherding His people — Isaiah using cattle imagery, the Psalm using sheep imagery. The common theme is divine guidance of a vulnerable people through a hostile landscape toward a place of rest. Isaiah adds the distinctive element of the Spirit as the agent of rest-giving, connecting the shepherding motif to the pneumatology of Isaiah 63:10-14.