Isaiah 40:31

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But vnto them that haue their trust in the Lorde, shall strength be increased: Egles winges shall growe vpon them, when they runne they shall not fall, and when they go they shall not be weerie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְקוֹיֵ֤ יְהוָה֙ יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ כֹ֔חַ יַעֲל֥וּ אֵ֖בֶר כַּנְּשָׁרִ֑ים יָר֙וּצוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א יִיגָ֔עוּ יֵלְכ֖וּ וְלֹ֥א יִיעָֽפוּ׃ פ

Transliteration

wěqôyê YHWH yaḥălîpû kōaḥ yaʿălû ʾēber kanněšārîm yārûṣû wělōʾ yîgāʿû yēlěkû wělōʾ yîʿāpû

Grammar Details

• *wěqôyê*: conjunction + qal participle, masculine plural construct - 'but those who wait for'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'LORD'
• *yaḥălîpû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'will renew'
• *kōaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - 'strength'
• *yaʿălû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'they will mount up'
• *ʾēber*: noun, masculine singular - 'wing/pinion'
• *kanněšārîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - 'like the eagles'
• *yārûṣû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'they will run'
• *wělōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - 'and not'
• *yîgāʿû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'grow weary'
• *yēlěkû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'they will walk'
• *yîʿāpû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'faint'

Word Meanings

• *qôyê*: those who wait for/those who hope in
• *yaḥălîpû*: will renew/will exchange
• *yaʿălû ʾēber*: will mount up with wings/will rise up with pinions
• *něšārîm*: eagles/large birds of prey
• *yārûṣû*: will run/will race
• *yîgāʿû*: grow weary/become exhausted
• *yēlěkû*: will walk/will go
• *yîʿāpû*: faint/tire

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Wherefore we are not weryed: But though our outwarde man perishe, yet the inwarde man is renued day by day.
• Ps 103:5 : 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges: causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued.
• Lam 3:25-26 : 25 O howe good is the Lord vnto them that put their trust in hym, and to the soule that seeketh after hym. 26 The good man with stilnesse and pacience, taryeth for the health of the Lorde.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me. 10 Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong.
• Ps 27:13-14 : 13 If I had not beleued veryly to see the goodnes of God in the lande of the liuing: their spite had kylled me. 14 Attende thou therfore vpon God, be of a good courage, and he will comfort thine heart: I say attende thou vpon God.
• Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not be weery in well doyng: for in due season we shall reape, yf we faynt not.
• Heb 12:1 : 1 Wherfore, seyng that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, lay away all that presseth downe, & the sinne that hangeth so fast on, let vs run with patience vnto the battayle that is set before vs:
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somewhat. 9 We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe, but we perisshe not. 10 We alwayes beare about in the body the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesus myght also appeare in our bodie.
• Luke 18:1 : 1 And he put foorth a parable vnto them, to this ende that me ought alwayes to pray, & not to be weery,
• Ps 84:7 : 7 They wyl set forward from a stoute courage to a stoute courage: that the God of Gods may be seene of them in Sion.
• Ps 37:34 : 34 Wayte thou on God & kepe his way, and he wyll promote thee, that thou mayest possesse the lande: when the vngodly shalbe cut of, thou shalt see it.
• Exod 19:4 : 4 Ye haue seene what I did vnto the Egyptians, and toke you vp vpon Eagles wynges, and haue brought you vnto my selfe.
• Ps 138:3 : 3 In the day of myne aduersitie I called vpon thee, and thou heardest me: thou enduedst my soule more and more with strength.
• Rom 8:25 : 25 But and yf we hope for that we see not, the do we with pacience abide for it.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore doth the Lorde cause you to wayte, that he may haue mercy vpon you, to the entent that he may haue the preeminence when he is gratious vnto you: For the Lord is the God of iudgement, Blessed are all they that hope in hym.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we woulde not brethren haue you ignoraunt of our trouble, whiche came vnto vs in Asia: For we were greeued out of measure, passyng strength, so greatly, that we dispayred euen of lyfe. 9 Yea, we receaued the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not put our trust in our selues, but in God, whiche rayseth the dead: 10 Who delyuered vs from so great a death, and doth deliuer: On whom we trust that yet hereafter he wyll deliuer,
• Job 17:9 : 9 The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it shalbe sayde, lo this is our God, we haue wayted for hym, and he shall saue vs, this is the Lorde in whom we haue hoped, we wyll be merie and reioyce in the saluation that commeth of hym.
• Zech 10:12 : 12 I wil comfort them in ye lord, that they may walke in his name, saith the Lord.
• Heb 12:3 : 3 Consider therfore hym that endured such speakyng agaynst hym of sinners, lest you shoulde be weryed, fayntyng in your myndes.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therfore, seyng that we haue such a ministerie, as we haue receaued mercie, we faynt not:
• Isa 8:17 : 17 And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.
• Ps 25:3 : 3 Yea, let not all them that hope in thee be put to shame: let them be put to shame who without a cause do trayterously transgresse.
• Job 33:24-26 : 24 Then the Lord is mercifull vnto him, and sayth, He shalbe deliuered, that he fall not downe to the graue: for I am sufficiently reconciled. 25 Then shal his fleshe be as freshe as a childes, and shal returne as in the dayes of his youth. 26 He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse.
• Judg 16:28 : 28 And Samson called vnto the Lorde, and sayde: O Lorde God I pray thee thyncke vpon me, and strengthen me I beseche thee at this tyme onelye O God, that I may be at once auenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
• Ps 123:2 : 2 Beholde, as the eyes of seruauntes loke vnto the hande of their maisters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hande of her maistresse: euen so our eyes wayte vpon God our Lorde vntyll he haue mercie vpon vs.
• Ps 25:5 : 5 leade me foorth in thy trueth and teache me, for thou art the Lorde of my saluation, I haue wayted for thee al the day long.
• Ps 25:21 : 21 Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee.
• Ps 40:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me his eare: and heard my crying.
• Rev 2:3 : 3 And hast suffred, and hast patience, and for my names sake hast laboured, and hast not faynted.
• Ps 92:1 : 1 A Psalme, the song for the sabbath day. It is a good thyng to confesse vnto God: and to syng psalmes vnto thy name O thou most hyghest.
• Ps 92:13 : 13 Such as be planted in the house of God: shall florishe in the courtes of our Lorde.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 And to tary for his sonne from heauen, whom he raysed from the dead: euen Iesus which delyuereth vs from the wrath to come.
• Song 8:5 : 5 (What is she this that cometh vp from the wildernesse, and leaneth vpon her loue?) I wake thee vp among the apple trees where thy mother conceaued thee, where thy mother I say brought thee into the worlde.
• Rev 4:7 : 7 And the first beast was lyke a Lion, and the seconde beast lyke a Calfe, & the thirde beast had a face as a Man, and the fourth beast was like a fleyng Egle.