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Isaiah 40:27-31
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27 Why do you say, Jacob,
Why do you say, Israel,
“The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me;[a]
My God is not concerned with my vindication”?[b]
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is an eternal God,
the Creator of the whole earth.[c]
He does not get tired or weary;
there is no limit to his wisdom.[d]
29 He gives strength to those who are tired;
to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.
30 Even youths get tired and weary;
even strong young men clumsily stumble.[e]
31 But those who wait for the Lord’s help[f] find renewed strength;
they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings,[g]
they run without growing weary,
they walk without getting tired.

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  1. Isaiah 40:27 tn Heb “my way is hidden from the Lord” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Isaiah 40:27 tn Heb “and from my God my justice passes away”; NRSV “my right is disregarded by my God.”
  3. Isaiah 40:28 tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.
  4. Isaiah 40:28 sn Exiled Israel’s complaint (v. 27) implies that God might be limited in some way. Perhaps he, like so many of the pagan gods, has died. Or perhaps his jurisdiction is limited to Judah and does not include Babylon. Maybe he is unable to devise an adequate plan to rescue his people, or is unable to execute it. But v. 28 affirms that he is not limited temporally or spatially nor are his power and wisdom restricted in any way. He can and will deliver his people, if they respond in hopeful faith (v. 31a).
  5. Isaiah 40:30 tn Heb “stumbling they stumble.” The verbal idea is emphasized by the infinitive absolute.
  6. Isaiah 40:31 tn The word “help” in the phrase “for the Lord’s help” is supplied in the translation for clarification, as is the possessive on “Lord.”
  7. Isaiah 40:31 tn Heb “they rise up [on] wings like eagles” (TEV similar).
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Isaiah 40:27-31
American Standard Version

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? [a]The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

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  1. Isaiah 40:28 Or, Jehovah is an everlasting God, the Creator . . . he fainteth not etc.
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