![]() ![]() ![]() In Isaiah 40:30 the verb stands first, Isaiah 40:30 being like a concessive clause in relation to Isaiah 40:31. kal, which retains what has been stated for contemplation, according to Ges. But they who wait for Jehovah gain fresh strength lift up their wings like eagles run, and are not weary go forward, and do not faint." Even youths, even young men in the early bloom of their morning of life (bachūrı̄m, youths, from בּחר, related to בּכר, בּגר), succumb to the effects of the loss of sustenance or over-exertion (both futures are defective, the first letter being dropped), and any outward obstacle is sufficient to cause them to fall (נכשׁל with inf. "And youths grow faint and weary, and young men suffer a fall. ![]() Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentFaith is all that is needed to ensure a participation in the strength (עצמה after the form חכמה), which He so richly bestows and so powerfully enhances. (f) "corruendo corruent", Montanus "labefacti cadent", Castalio. The Targum interprets this clause, as well as the following, of wicked and ungodly men and so do Jarchi and Kimchi: it may be applied to the Heathen emperors, who persecuted the church of God, and were smitten by him, and found it too hard a work to extirpate Christianity out of the world, which they thought to have done and also to all the antichristian states, who have given their power and strength to the beast:Īnd the young men shall utterly fail or, "falling shall fall" (f) stumble and fall, die and perish or, however, not be able to perform their enterprise. Some think the Babylonians and Chaldeans are here meant, the enemies of Israel, and by whom they were carried captive. 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 in the way or they meet with that which they are not equal to, and sink under, and are discouraged, and obliged to desist. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleEven the youths shall faint and be weary. ![]()
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