Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
In Context
29He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength.
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing.
Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t
Isaiah 13:18And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces. And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
Amos 2:14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, nor shall the mighty deliver himself.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:28-31
Jehovah's Grandeur and Compassion. ( b. c. 708.) 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord , and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord , the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young… Read the whole commentary →