Isaiah 40:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.”
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BSBPD
“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 40:30 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 30:10because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.
- Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Ecclesiastes 9:11I 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 happen to all.
- Isaiah 9:17Therefore 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.
- Isaiah 13:18Their 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.
- Jeremiah 6:11But 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 9:21For 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 48:15Moab 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.
- Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
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