Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 40:30
The youngest and strongest men, left to themselves, or without God's help, or which do not wait upon God; which is easily understood from the opposition in the following verse.
The youngest and strongest men, left to themselves, or without God's help, or which do not wait upon God; which is easily understood from the opposition in the following verse.
EVEN THE YOUTHS SHALL FAINT - The most vigorous young men, those in whom we expect manly strength, and who are best suited to endure hardy toil. They become weary by labor. Their powers are soon exhau...
II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66) Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon the Je...
AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6. Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very small things. N...
UTTERLY FALL. Note Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6) for this emphasis. Hebrew "they fall, they fall"....
The prophet now turns to his own people, drawing the lesson of hope and encouragement which lies in the true doctrine of God. Jehovah, whom Israel still calls "my God" (Isaiah 40:27), is eternal and u...
_Even the youths shall faint_ Better: AND THOUGH YOUTHS FAINT AND ARE WEARY AND CHOICE YOUNG MEN STUMBLE (the protasis to Isaiah 40:31). Natural strength at its best is exhausted, but...
DISCOURSE: 924 THE DESPONDING ENCOURAGED Isaiah 40:27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, h...
WHY SAYEST THOU, &C.— The _third,_ or _consolatory_ part of this discourse begins at this verse, wherein the foregoing doctrine and prophesy are applied to the comfort of the church; who, in her vario...
c. PERSEVERE IN WAITING FOR THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:27-31 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God? 28...
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: THE YOUNG MEN (Hebrew, bachuwriym (H970)) - literally, those selected. men picked out on account of their youthful v...
40:30 fall; (d-16) Or 'shall become tottering.' lit. 'stumbling, shall stumble.'...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal length...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...
God’s gift of new energy will help his people to a better knowledge of his ways. SINS ~ evil deeds. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, the capital of the country called Israel. During the t...
EVEN THE YOUTHS... — The second word implies a nearer approach to manhood than the first, the age when vigour is at its highest point....
וְ יִֽעֲפ֥וּ נְעָרִ֖ים וְ יִגָ֑עוּ וּ בַחוּרִ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH Isaiah 40:18-31 Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist el...
(f) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: (f) They who trust in their own virtue, and do not acknowledge that all comes from God....
As the Prophet's commission opened, so the chapter is closed, in giving a special comfort to the Lord's people. It is impossible to conceive in the whole compass of language, anything more gracious, m...
30._The youths are wearied and faint. _By this comparison the Prophet illustrates more powerfully what he had formerly said, that the strength which God imparts to his elect is invincible and unwearie...
The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
EVEN THE YOUTHS SHALL FAINT AND BE WEARY,.... Such as are in the prime of their strength, and glory in it, yet through the hand of God upon them, by one disease or another, their strength is weakened...
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Ver. 30. _Even the youths shall faint._] All that trust to their own strength shall tire out. Like as the hare, that tr...
_He giveth power to the faint_ He hath strength enough, not only for himself, but for all, even the weakest of his creatures, whom he can easily strengthen to bear all their burdens, and to vanquish a...
Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry of the heathen nations guarantees...
Even the youths, those in the prime of their young manhood, SHALL FAINT AND BE WEARY, namely, when depending on their own strength, AND THE YOUNG MEN, those excelling in youthful vigor and energy, SHA...
27-31 The people of God are reproved for their unbelief and distrust of God. Let them remember they took the names Jacob and Israel, from one who found God faithful to him in all his straits. And the...
Isaiah 40:30 youths H5288 faint H3286 (H8799) weary H3021 (H8799) men H970 utterly H3782 (H8800) fall...
THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now revealed in...
Isaiah 40:28 I. We have, first, the prophet's appeal to the familiar thought of an unchangeable God as the antidote to all despondency and the foundation of all hope. The life of men and of creatures...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem._ The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best conditi...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._ «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
Isaiah 40:25. _To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he c...
CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
_He giveth power to the faint_ THE DIVINE HELPER I. OUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION IS INTIMATELY KNOWN TO THE DIVINE FATHER. He knows the strong and the faint alike. As a wise Shepherd, He is acquainted wi...
_Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord?_ THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD: A REPLY TO UNBELIEF I. THE UNIVERSAL DISPOSITION TO UNBELIEF. “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and s...
_Even the youths shall faint_ THE UNFAINTING SPIRIT The Hebrew tendency to lean upon the most muscular arm accessible, to buy up horses from Egypt in imitation of the warriors of the plains, to form...
_The Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not._ THE UNWEARIED GOD AND WEARIED MEN For nations and for individuals in view of political disasters or of private sorrows, the only holdf...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:30 EVEN YOUTHS. Human strength fails, even at its best. Only God can provide the strength needed for life’s challenges. ⇐
CHEER FOR THE DESPONDING Isaiah 40:26. _Lift up your eyes on high, &c._ These encouraging assurances must have been of the highest value to the captive and disconsolate Jews in Babylon. Banished for...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...
But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
Amos 2:14; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 9:17; Psalms 33:16
The youths — The youngest and strongest men, left to themselves....