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Isaiah 40:30

In 11 translations

BSB
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
KJV
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
WEB
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
ASV
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
LSV
Even youths are wearied and fatigued, || And young men utterly stumble,
YLT
Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,
DBY
Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
DRC
Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.
GNV
Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall.
JPS
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;
LXXE
For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּ נְעָרִ֖ים וְיִגָ֑עוּ וּבַחוּרִ֖ים כָּשׁ֥וֹל יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃
LXX-Br
Πεινάσουσι γὰρ νεώτεροι, καὶ κοπιάσουσι νεανίσκοι, καὶ ἐκλεκτοὶ ἀνίσχυες ἔσονται.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
  • Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
  • Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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…
  • 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.

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