Isaiah 40:30
For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
In Context
29He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:10And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Besor.
Psalms 34:10All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? 1 Delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, 1 Yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, 1 That the race is not to the swift, 1 Nor the battle to the strong, 1 Nor yet bread to the wise, 1 Nor yet wealth to men of understanding, 1 Nor yet favor to men of knowledge; 1 For time and chance will happen to them all. 1
Isaiah 13:18They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.
Jeremiah 9:21And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.
Amos 2:14And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not 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 →