Isaiah 40:30

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

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  • Ps 33:16 : 16 A king is not saved by a large army; a warrior will not be delivered by great strength.
  • Isa 13:18 : 18 Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor does bread come to the wise, nor riches to the discerning, nor favor to the knowledgeable; but time and chance happen to them all.
  • Isa 9:17 : 17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 Fear the Lord, you His holy ones, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.
  • Jer 9:21 : 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 31but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

  • Isa 40:28-29
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    28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.

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

  • 13In that day, the beautiful young women and the strong young men will faint from thirst.

  • 17All hands will hang limp, and every knee will become weak as water.

  • 27None among them grows tired or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loosened at their waist; no sandal strap is broken.

  • 10If you falter in a day of trouble, your strength is small.

  • 3Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.

  • 7Because of this, every hand will go limp and every human heart will melt with fear.

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
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    14Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

    15The archer will not stand his ground, the swift-footed will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

    16Even the bravest of warriors will flee naked on that day,' declares the LORD.

  • 13Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.

  • 2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • 10O Lord, all my desires are before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

  • Job 4:4-5
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    4Your words have raised up those who stagger, and you have strengthened knees that were about to give way.

    5But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • 12To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

  • 4'The bows of the mighty are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.'

  • 12Therefore, strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.

  • 24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body has grown thin and gaunt.

  • 27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

  • Lev 26:36-37
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    36As for those of you who survive, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as though running from a sword, though no one pursues them.

    37They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from the sword, though no one pursues them. You will not be able to stand before your enemies.

  • 10The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  • Isa 1:30-31
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    30For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

    31The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, and no one will extinguish them.

  • 5You are radiant and majestic, more excellent than the mountains of prey.

  • 20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like antelopes caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.

  • 26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  • 18The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away.

  • 8Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor.

  • 16Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

  • 4The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

  • 30Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all her soldiers will perish on that day, declares the LORD.

  • 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

  • 14Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

  • 18Even when I am old and my hair turns gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

  • 7Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel.

  • 17Because of this, our hearts are faint, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

  • 7They charge like mighty warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each marches in formation without veering off course.

  • 11Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.

  • 16You said, 'No, we will flee on horses'—therefore you will flee! And, 'We will ride on swift horses'—therefore your pursuers will be swift!

  • 7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

  • 12young men and young women, old men and children.

  • 5If you have raced with footmen and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in a land of peace, how will you manage in the thickets of the Jordan?

  • 24Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD supports him with His hand.

  • 25Outside, the sword will bring bereavement, and inside, there will be terror. It will affect both the young man and the young woman, the nursing child with the gray-haired man.

  • 5Hungry and thirsty, their souls grew faint within them.

  • 3On the day when those who watch over the house tremble, the strong men stoop, and the women who grind cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim.