Isaiah 40:30 “Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.”

Isaiah 40:30

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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;

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall.

Darby Translation

Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;

Young's Literal Translation

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

Bible in Basic English

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

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Cross references

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

Amos 2:14 Psalm 34:10 Psalm 33:16 Isaiah 9:17 Isaiah 13:18 Ecclesiastes 9:11

Amos 2:14 · BSB

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

Psalm 34:10 · BSB

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Psalm 33:16 · BSB

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

Isaiah 9:17 · BSB

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…

Isaiah 13:18 · BSB

Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 · BSB

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happ…

Also

Jeremiah 6:11 Jeremiah 9:21

Jeremiah 6:11 · BSB

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 a…

Jeremiah 9:21 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

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.

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