The sovereign is not saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Isaiah 40:30 - The Scriptures 2009 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted; American Standard Version (1901) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Common English Bible Youths will become tired and weary, young men will certainly stumble; Catholic Public Domain Version Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Youths shall faint and labour: and young men shall fall by infirmity. |
The sovereign is not saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Kaph Young lions have lacked and been hungry; But those who seek יהוה lack not any good matter.
See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”
I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge – for time and chance meets with them all.
“And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spares no children.
Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
“Mo’aḇ is ravaged and her cities have been entered. And her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts.
Therefore I am filled with the wrath of יהוה. I have become weary of containing it. “Pour it out on the children outside, and on the company of young men together, for even husband and wife shall be taken, the aged and the very old.
For death has come through our windows, has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.
“And a place to flee shall perish from the swift, and the strong not fortify his power, and the mighty not save his life,
while Dawiḏ pursued, he and four hundred men – for two hundred halted, who were too faint to pass over the wadi Besor.