Isaiah 40:31
Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
30Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25Iron and copper shall be thy bolts; and as thy [younger] days so shall thy old age be.
Judges 16:28And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord Eternal, remember me, I pray thee, and do thou strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged for one of my two eyes on the Philistines.
Job 33:24Then is he gracious unto him, and saith, Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.
Psalms 25:3Yea, none that wait on thee will be put to shame: let those be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause.
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness guard me; for I wait on thee.
Psalms 37:34Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, shalt thou look on.
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 →