Isaiah 40:30
New King James Version
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
Amos 2:14
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14 (A)Therefore [a]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
(B)Nor shall the mighty [b]deliver himself;
Psalm 33:16
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16 (A)No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Isaiah 13:18
New King James Version
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
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11 I returned (A)and saw under the sun that—
The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and (B)chance happen to them all.
Psalm 34:10
New King James Version
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
(A)But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
Isaiah 9:17
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17 Therefore the Lord (A)will have no joy in their young men,
Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows;
For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer,
And every mouth speaks [a]folly.
(B)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:17 foolishness
Jeremiah 6:11
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11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.
(A)I am weary of holding it in.
“I will pour it out (B)on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
Psalm 39:5
New King James Version
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah
Jeremiah 9:21
New King James Version
21 For death has come through our windows,
Has entered our palaces,
To kill off (A)the children—[a]no longer to be outside!
And the young men—[b]no longer on the streets!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from outside
- Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from the square
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