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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

Lamentations 4:15 → Isaiah 52:11-12

Allusion

Later text

Lamentations 4:15BSB

"Go away! Unclean!" men shouted at them. "Away, away! Do not touch us!" So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, "They can stay here no longer."

Earlier text

Isaiah 52:11-12BSB

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Significance

Lamentations 4:15 uses the cry סוּרוּ (suru, "Go away! Depart!") directed at bloodstained priests and prophets who are treated as ritually unclean lepers, with the command "Do not touch!" Isaiah 52:11 reverses the same imperative: סוּרוּ סוּרוּ (suru suru, "Depart, depart!") now commands the exiles to leave Babylon and "touch no unclean thing." In Lamentations, Israel's leaders are the ones driven away as unclean; in Isaiah, the purified remnant is commanded to depart from unclean Babylon. The shared vocabulary of departure and untouchability creates a dramatic reversal from shameful expulsion to glorious exodus.

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

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