Isaiah 40:30
Even the ne'arim (youths) shall faint and grow weary, 1 and the bochurim shall utterly fall; 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
In Context
29He giveth ko'ach to the faint; 1 and to them that have no might He increaseth power. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:10But Dovid pursued, he and arba me'ot ish; for two hundred stayed behind, which were so exhausted that they could not go over the brook Besor.
Psalms 34:10O fear Hashem, ye His Kedoshim; 1 for there is no lack to them that fear Him. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the shemesh, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the gibborim, neither yet lechem to the chachamim, nor yet osher to the intelligent, nor yet chen (favor) to the experts; but et (time) and pega (chance) happeneth to them all.
Isaiah 13:18Their keshatot (bows) also shall tear ne'arim (young men) to pieces; 1 and they shall have no rachamim on the pri beten (fruit of the womb); 1 their eyes shall not pity banim. 1
Jeremiah 9:21Speak: Thus saith Hashem, 1 Even the nevilah of adam shall fall 1 like domen (dung) upon the sadeh, 1 and the omer (sheaf) after the kotzer (harvester), 1 and none shall gather them.
Amos 2:14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, 1 and the chazak shall not strengthen his ko'ach, 1 neither shall the gibbor deliver his own nefesh; 1
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 →