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27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
    and my justice escapes the notice of my God”?
28 Have you not known?
    Have you not heard,
that the everlasting God, the Lord,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth,
does not faint, nor is He weary?
    His understanding is inscrutable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
    and to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
    and the young men shall utterly fall,
31 but those who wait upon the Lord
    shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles,
    they shall run and not be weary,
    and they shall walk and not faint.

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27 Why[a] do you say, Jacob,
    and you speak, Israel,
“My way is hidden from Yahweh,
    and my judgment is passed over by my God?”
28 Have you not known,
    or have you not heard?
Yahweh is the God of eternity,
    the creator of the ends of the earth!
He is not faint, and he does not grow weary!
    There is no searching his understanding.
29 He gives power to the weary,
    and he increases power for the powerless.[b]
30 Even[c] young people will be faint and grow weary,
    and the young will stumble, exhausted.
31 But[d] those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength.
    They shall go up with wings[e] like eagles;
they shall run and not grow weary;
    they shall walk and not be faint.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:27 Literally “To what”
  2. Isaiah 40:29 Literally “not power”
  3. Isaiah 40:30 Or “And”
  4. Isaiah 40:31 Or “And”
  5. Isaiah 40:31 Hebrew “wing”