Isaiah 40:30
Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
In Context
29He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might.
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:10But David pursued on, he and four hundred men; and there stayed behind two hundred men, who were too fatigued to go over the brook Bessor.
Psalms 34:10(34:11) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek the Lord shall not want any good.
Ecclesiastes 9:11I turned about, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; and that also the wise have no bread, nor yet the men of understanding riches, nor yet men of knowledge favor; but time and fate will overtake them all.
Isaiah 13:18And their bows will dash young men to pieces; and on the fruit of the womb will they have no mercy; on children their eye will not look with pity.
Jeremiah 9:21(9:20) For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the open places.
Amos 2:14And refuge shall vanish from the swift, and the strong shall not make use of his force, neither shall the mighty man escape with 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 →