Isaiah 40:29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

◄ Isaiah 40:29 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

English Standard Version
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

New American Standard Bible
He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power.

King James Bible
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He gives strength to the weary and strengthens the powerless.

International Standard Version
He's the one who gives might to the faint, renewing strength for the powerless.

American Standard Version
He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.

Darby Bible Translation
He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Young's Literal Translation
He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Judges 15:19
But God split an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of there; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: why he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

Psalm 29:11
The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 68:35
O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.

Isaiah 41:10
Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.

Jeremiah 31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

40:27-31 The people of God are reproved for their unbelief and distrust of God. Let them remember they took the names Jacob and Israel, from one who found God faithful to him in all his straits. And they bore these names as a people in covenant with Him. Many foolish frets, and foolish fears, would vanish before inquiry into the causes. It is bad to have evil thoughts rise in our minds, but worse to turn them into evil words. What they had known, and had heard, was sufficient to silence all these fears and distrusts. Where God had begun the work of grace, he will perfect it. He will help those who, in humble dependence on him, help themselves. As the day, so shall the strength be. In the strength of Divine grace their souls shall ascend above the world. They shall run the way of God's commandments cheerfully. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. Not only does He "not faint" (Isa 40:28) but He gives power to them who do faint.

no might … increaseth strength—a seeming paradox. They "have no might" in themselves; but in Him they have strength, and He "increases" that strength (2Co 12:9).