Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

since everyone who calls on the name of Adonai will be delivered.

And how can people proclaim him unless God sends them? — as the Tanakh puts it, “How beautiful are the feet of those announcing good news about good things!”

The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Yesha‘yahu says, “Adonai, who has trusted what he has heard from us?”

“But, I say, isn’t it rather that they didn’t hear?” No, they did hear — “Their voice has gone out throughout the whole world and their words to the ends of the earth.”

“But, I say, isn’t it rather that Isra’el didn’t understand?” “I will provoke you to jealousy over a non-nation, over a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”

Moreover, Yesha‘yahu boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me, I became known to those who did not ask for me”;

but to Isra’el he says, “All day long I held out my hands to a people who kept disobeying and contradicting.”

“Adonai, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I’m the only one left, and now they want to kill me too!”

But what is God’s answer to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt down to Ba‘al.”

just as the Tanakh says, “God has given them a spirit of dullness — eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, right down to the present day.”

And David says, “Let their dining table become for them a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a punishment.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see, with their backs bent continually.”

and that it is in this way that all Isra’el will be saved. As the Tanakh says, “Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer; he will turn away ungodliness from Ya‘akov

and this will be my covenant with them, . . . when I take away their sins.”

For, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counselor?’

Never seek revenge, my friends; instead, leave that to God’s anger; for in the Tanakh it is written, “Adonai says, ‘Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay.’”

On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For by doing this, you will heap fiery coals [of shame] on his head.”

For the commandments, “Don’t commit adultery,” “Don’t murder,” “Don’t steal,” “Don’t covet,” and any others are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

since it is written in the Tanakh, “As I live, says Adonai, every knee will bend before me, and every tongue will publicly acknowledge God.”

For even the Messiah did not please himself; rather, as the Tanakh says, ‘The insults of those insulting you fell on me.’

and in order to show his mercy by causing the Gentiles to glorify God — as it is written in the Tanakh, “Because of this I will acknowledge you among the Gentiles and sing praise to your name.”

And again it says, “Gentiles, rejoice with his people.”

And again, “Praise Adonai, all Gentiles! Let all peoples praise him!”

And again, Yesha‘yahu says, “The root of Yishai will come, he who arises to rule Gentiles; Gentiles will put their hope in him.”

but rather, as the Tanakh puts it, “Those who have not been told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”