Isaiah 40:30
New International Version
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

New Living Translation
Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.

English Standard Version
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

Berean Standard Bible
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

King James Bible
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

New King James Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

New American Standard Bible
Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

NASB 1995
Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

NASB 1977
Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Legacy Standard Bible
Though youths grow weary and tired, And choice young men stumble badly,

Amplified Bible
Even youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Christian Standard Bible
Youths may become faint and weary, and young men stumble and fall,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Youths may faint and grow weary, and young men stumble and fall,

American Standard Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Young men shall be troubled and they shall be weary, and boys, stumbling, shall stumble

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

Contemporary English Version
Even young people get tired, then stumble and fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.

English Revised Version
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even young people grow tired and become weary, and young men will stumble and fall.

Good News Translation
Even those who are young grow weak; young people can fall exhausted.

International Standard Version
Even boys grow tired and weary, and young men collapse and fall,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall;

Literal Standard Version
Even youths are wearied and fatigued, | And young men utterly stumble,

Majority Standard Bible
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

New American Bible
Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths stagger and fall,

NET Bible
Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

New Revised Standard Version
Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted;

New Heart English Bible
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

Webster's Bible Translation
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

World English Bible
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

Young's Literal Translation
Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Here is Your God!
29He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak. 30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. 31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.…

Cross References
Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Jeremiah 6:11
But I am full of the LORD's wrath; I am tired of holding it back. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Jeremiah 48:15
Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.


Treasury of Scripture

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Psalm 33:16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

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Isaiah 40
1. The promulgation of the Gospel
3. The preaching of John Baptist foretold
9. The preaching of the apostles foretold
12. The prophet, by the omnipotence of God
18. And his incomparableness
26. Comforts the people.














(30) Even the youths . . .--The second word implies a nearer approach to manhood than the first, the age when vigour is at its highest point.

Verse 30. - Shall faint... shall fall; rather, should even the youths faint and be weary, and should the young men utterly fall, yet they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, etc. The two clauses of ver. 30 are "concessive."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Even the youths
נְעָרִ֖ים (nə·‘ā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

may faint
וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּ (wə·yi·‘ă·p̄ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3286: To be weary, faint

and grow weary,
וְיִגָ֑עוּ (wə·yi·ḡā·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3021: To gasp, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil

and young men
וּבַחוּרִ֖ים (ū·ḇa·ḥū·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 970: Selected, a youth

stumble
כָּשׁ֥וֹל (kā·šō·wl)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

and fall.
יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃ (yik·kā·šê·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall


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