Isaiah 40:30
Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
In Context
29It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who being weary could not go over the torrent Besor.
Psalms 34:10Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Ecclesiastes 9:11I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.
Isaiah 13:18But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
Jeremiah 9:21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
Amos 2:14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.
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 →