Jesaja 40:30

30 Die Knaben werden müde und matt, und die Jünglinge fallen;

Jesaja 40:30 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:30

Even the youths shall faint and be weary
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. Some think the Babylonians and Chaldeans are here meant, the enemies of Israel, and by whom they were carried captive. 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: and the young men shall utterly fail;
or, "falling shall fall" ^F6; stumble and fall, die and perish; or, however, not be able to perform their enterprise.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wlvky lwvk) "corruendo corruent", Montanus; "labefacti cadent", Castalio.

Jesaja 40:30 In-Context

28 Weißt du nicht? hast du nicht gehört? Der HERR, der ewige Gott, der die Enden der Erde geschaffen hat, wird nicht müde noch matt; sein Verstand ist unausforschlich.

29 Er gibt den Müden Kraft, und Stärke genug dem Unvermögenden.

30 Die Knaben werden müde und matt, und die Jünglinge fallen;

31 aber die auf den HERRN harren, kriegen neue Kraft, daß sie auffahren mit Flügeln wie Adler, daß sie laufen und nicht matt werden, daß sie wandeln und nicht müde werden.