Haftorah of Ekev
Isa/Yesh 49:14-51:3

Common Themes

Garment

• Isa 49:18 "As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride."
• Isa 50:3 "I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering"
• Isa 50:9 "who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up"
• Isa 51:8 "For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; "

צר (Adversity, Narrow, rock)

• Isa 49:19 "surely now shalt thou be too narrow (צר) for the inhabitants"
• Isa 49:20 "'The place is too narrow (צר) for me"
• Adversity is content of nearly all this passage
• Isa 51:1 "Look to the rock (צוּר) from which you were cut."