“He Filled Zion with Justice and Righteousness” 495 least partially be dated to the Assyrian period, one may assume that Isa 33,1+4 once closed an earlier collection of ywh-text by pronouncing judgment on Assyria, who for a little while had become the axe of YHWH cutting the mighty trees of Israel and Judah. The role of 33,1+4 was similar to the anti-Assyrian prophecy in Isa 10, which also appears as a culmination of Israel-related prophecies (85). 2. Isa 33,2-3+5+7-12: The First Expansion Vv. 1+4 look forward to the time when the enemy will have finished the work assigned to it by YHWH. The first expansion of this text takes up the idea of timing, reminding YHWH that following the fulfilment of the first part of the earlier prophecy, the time has come to fulfil the second part of the promise (cf. Ps 102,14; Zech 1,12). For this purpose, the author uses the form of communal laments with prayer, description and oracle. When discussing the intertextual connections of Isa 33, scholars mostly point out sporadic lexical relationships between Isa 33 and other texts, but they give little attention to the formal similarities between Isa 33 and other Isaianic passages (86). While 1st pl. formulas are not uncommon to Isaiah, they appear rarely in the context of a prayer. The first text to be mentioned is Isa 26, which also includes communal lament. The whispered prayer alluded to in 26,16, from the time when Judah was under oppression (rx), could be 33,2-3 (cf. hrx t[b), reminding in 26,18 that the related oracle (33,10-12) has remained unfulfilled. Isa 26 also presents the humiliation of “the city” (26,5), the exaltation of YHWH (26,11), the destruction scenes (26,5-6), and an oracle (26,19-21) which sets a new date for the realisation of the old prophecy ([grAf[mk / μ[zArb[yAd[). Beyond formal similarities, there is also a close lexical and thematic connection between the two passages (87). However, Isa 26 presents a (85) Contra WASCHKE (“Jesaja 33”, 530), who considers Isa 32 the closure of the ywh-collection. (86) For example, BEUKEN (“Jesaja 33”, 13-15) argues that 33,2 can be seen as mirroring Isa 8,17.22-23; 12; 25,9.10; 51,5; 59,1.11. BERGES (Jesaja, 246, 248) maintains that 33,24 alludes to 1,4; 6,7; 40,2 and Lam 4,22. It is difficult to imagine, however, that an author composes each verse in view of so many references and yet arrives to a coherent final text. For the problems with this way of dealing with intertextuality, see also WASCHKE, “Jesaja 33”, 524, who emphasises the importance of “inhaltliche und strukturelle Analogien”. (87) 33,2 | 26,8 (cf. also 25,9); 33,2 (μyrqbl) | 26,9 (hlylb); 33,5 | 26,8 (μwrm / hbgcn); 33,5 | 26,8 (˚yfpvm jra; cf. 26,16; fpvm is used here as judgment on Judah);