Isaiah 40:30

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Children are weerie and faint, and the strongest men fall:

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  • Ps 33:16 : 16 A king is not saued by the multitude of an hoast: a man of great myght escapeth not by much strength.
  • Isa 13:18 : 18 With bowes shall they destroy the young men, and haue no pitie on women with chylde, and their faces shall not spare the chyldren.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 Therfore the flight shall perishe from the swift, and the strong shal not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie saue his life.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder the sunne, & I sawe that in running it helpeth not to be swift, in battell it helpeth not to be strong, to feeding it helpeth not to be wyse, to riches it helpeth not to be a man of muche vnderstanding, to be had in fauour it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in tyme and fortune.
  • Isa 9:17 : 17 Therefore shall the Lorde haue no pleasure in their young men, neither haue pitie of their fatherlesse and wydowes: for they are altogether hypocrites and wicked, and al their mouthes speake folly: After all this is not the Lordes wrath ceassed, but yet his hand is stretched out styll.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 Young Lions do lacke and suffer hunger: but they whiche seeke God, shall want no maner of thing that is good.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 And therefore I am so full of thyne indignation O Lorde, that I may suffer no lenger, but shed it out vpon the chyldren that are without, and vpon all young men: yea the man must be taken prisoner with the wife, and the aged with the creeple.
  • Jer 9:21 : 21 Namely thus Death is climing vp in at our windowes, he is come into our houses, to destroy the chylde before the doore, and the young man in the streete.

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  • 31But 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.

  • Isa 40:28-29
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    28Knowest thou not, or hast thou not hearde that the euerlasting God, the Lorde whiche made all the corners of the earth, is neither weerie nor fainte? and that his wysdome can not be comprehended?

    29It is he that geueth strength vnto the weerie, and power vnto the faint.

  • 13In that day shall the fayre virgins, and the young men perishe for thirst.

  • 17All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.

  • 27There shall not be one faynt nor feeble among them, no not a sluggishe nor sleepie person: there shall not one of them put of his gyrdle from his loynes, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.

  • 10If thou be faynt in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.

  • 3And therfore strength the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.

  • 7Therefore shall all handes be letten downe, and all mens heartes shall melt away.

  • Amos 2:14-16
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    14Therfore the flight shall perishe from the swift, and the strong shal not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie saue his life.

    15Nor he that handleth the bowe shall stande, nor he that is swift of foote shall escape, neither shall he that rydeth the horse, saue his life.

    16And he that is of mightie courage among the strong men, shal flee away naked in that day, sayth the Lorde.

  • 13They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.

  • 2For wherto might the strength of their handes haue serued me? for the time was but lost among them.

  • 10My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me.

  • Job 4:4-5
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    4Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees.

    5But nowe it is come vpon thee, and thou art greeued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

  • 12If any man say vnto them, lo, this is the rest wherewith ye may ease hym that is weerie, this is the refreshing: they wyll not hearken.

  • 4The bowe with the mightie men are broken, and they that were weake haue gyrde them selues with strength.

  • 12Strayghten vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees:

  • 24My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse.

  • 27They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.

  • Lev 26:36-37
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    36And vpon them that are left alyue of you, I will sende a fayntnesse into their heartes in the landes of their enemies: and the sounde of a shakyng leafe shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleyng from a sworde: they shall fall, no man folowyng vpon them.

    37They shall fall one vpon another as it were before a sworde, euen no man folowyng vpon them, and ye shall haue no power to stand before your enemies.

  • 10The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength of nature men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.

  • Isa 1:30-31
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    30For ye shalbe as a tree whose leaues are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

    31And the very strong one of your idols shalbe as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke of fire and they shal both burne together, and no man quenche them.

  • 5The hygh couragious stomackes are spoyled, they haue slept their slepe: and the valiaunt souldiours coulde not finde their owne handes.

  • 20Thy sonnes lye comfortlesse at the head of euery streete like a take venison, and are full of the terrible wrath of the Lorde, and punishment of thy God.

  • 26My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer.

  • 18Yea all the glory of his wooddes and fieldes shalbe consumed with body and soule, and they shalbe as an hoast of men, whose standard bearer fayleth.

  • 8Assur also shalbe slayne with the sworde, not with a mans sworde, neither shal the sworde of any man deuour hym, and he shall flee from the slaughter, and his choise young men shalbe discomfited.

  • 16Wherefore we are not weryed: But though our outwarde man perishe, yet the inwarde man is renued day by day.

  • 4The earth is sory and consumeth away, the worlde is feeble & perisheth, the proude people of the earth are come to naught.

  • 30Therfore shall her young men fall downe in the streetes, and all her men of warre shalbe rooted out in that day saith the Lorde.

  • 27O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp?

  • 14They shall styll bryng foorth fruite in their age: they shalbe fat and florishyng.

  • 18Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

  • 7And if they say vnto thee, wherfore mournest thou? Then tell them, for the tidinges that commeth: All heartes shall melt, all handes shalbe letten downe, all stomackes shal faynt, and all knees shall go as water: beholde it commeth, and shalbe brought to passe, saith the Lorde God.

  • 17Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

  • 7They shall runne like strong men, and climbe the walles like men of warre: & euery one shall march on in his way, and they shal not linger in their pathes.

  • 11Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same ensample of disobedience.

  • 16For ye haue sayde, No, but we wyll escape thorowe horses, therefore shall ye flee: And we wyll get vs vp vpon swift beastes, and therefore shall your persecutours be swifter.

  • 7The grasse is withered, the floure falleth away, for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them: of a trueth the people are grasse.

  • 12Young men and maydens, olde men with children,

  • 5Seyng thou art weery in runnyng with the footmen, howe wilt thou then runne with horses? In a peaceable sure lande thou mayest be safe: but howe wylt thou do in the furious pride of Iordane?

  • 24Though he fall, he shall not be vndone: for God vpholdeth him with his hande.

  • 25Withoutforth shall the sworde robbe them of their children, and within in the chamber feare: both young men & young women, and the suckelynges, with the men of gray heades.

  • 5they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

  • 3When the kepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bowe them selues, when the milners stand styll because they be so fewe, and when the sight of the windowes shall waxe dimme: