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EVEN THE YOUTHS SHALL FAINT - The most vigorous young men, those in
whom we expect manly strength, and who are best suited to endure hardy
toil. They become weary by labor. Their powers are soon exhau...
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II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66)
Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The
three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon
the J...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things....
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UTTERLY FALL. Note Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6) for this
emphasis. Hebrew "they fall, they fall"....
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The prophet now turns to his own people, drawing the lesson of hope
and encouragement which lies in the true doctrine of God. Jehovah,
whom Israel still calls "my God" (Isaiah 40:27), is eternal and
u...
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DISCOURSE: 924
THE DESPONDING ENCOURAGED
Isaiah 40:27. _Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My
way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Hast thou not known,...
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WHY SAYEST THOU, &C.— The _third,_ or _consolatory_ part of this
discourse begins at this verse, wherein the foregoing doctrine and
prophesy are applied to the comfort of the church; who, in her vario...
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c. PERSEVERE IN WAITING FOR THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:27-31
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...
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall:
THE YOUNG MEN (Hebrew, bachuwriym (H970)) - literally, those
selected. men picked out on account of their youthful v...
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40:30 fall; (d-16) Or 'shall become tottering.' lit. 'stumbling, shall
stumble.'...
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ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON
On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to
their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of
almost equal length...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 40
This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah.
• In CHAPTER...
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EVEN THE YOUTHS... — The second word implies a nearer approach to
manhood than the first, the age when vigour is at its highest point....
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וְ יִֽעֲפ֥וּ נְעָרִ֖ים וְ יִגָ֑עוּ וּ
בַחוּרִ֖ים כָּשֹׁ֥ול יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃...
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah
44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1;...
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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three
divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the
Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66).
The fist e...
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(f) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall:
(f) They who trust in their own virtue, and do not acknowledge that
all comes from God....
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As the Prophet's commission opened, so the chapter is closed, in
giving a special comfort to the Lord's people. It is impossible to
conceive in the whole compass of language, anything more gracious,
m...
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30._The youths are wearied and faint. _By this comparison the Prophet
illustrates more powerfully what he had formerly said, that the
strength which God imparts to his elect is invincible and unwearie...
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The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah
extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is,
comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
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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...
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall:
Ver. 30. _Even the youths shall faint._] All that trust to their own
strength shall tire out. Like as the hare, that tr...
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_He giveth power to the faint_ He hath strength enough, not only for
himself, but for all, even the weakest of his creatures, whom he can
easily strengthen to bear all their burdens, and to vanquish a...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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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 the...
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The youngest and strongest men, left to themselves, or without God's
help, or which do not wait upon God; which is easily understood from
the opposition in the following verse....
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Isaiah 40:30 youths H5288 faint H3286 (H8799) weary H3021 (H8799) men
H970 utterly H3782 (H8800) fall H3782 (H8735)
Isaiah 9:17, Isaiah 13:18; Psalms 33:16, Psalms 34:10,...
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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Isaiah 40:28
I. We have, first, the prophet's appeal to the familiar thought of an
unchangeable God as the antidote to all despondency and the foundation
of all hope. The life of men and of creatures...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem._
The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy.
They are in the best conditi...
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CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness
of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken m...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is
this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are
doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
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_Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
the Lord?_
THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD: A REPLY TO UNBELIEF
I. THE UNIVERSAL DISPOSITION TO UNBELIEF. “Why sayest thou, O Jacob,
and s...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:30 EVEN YOUTHS. Human strength fails, even
at its best. Only God can provide the strength needed for life’s
challenges.
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CHEER FOR THE DESPONDING
Isaiah 40:26. _Lift up your eyes on high, &c._
These encouraging assurances must have been of the highest value to
the captive and disconsolate Jews in Babylon. Banished for...
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION
PREFATORY REMARKS
THE Assyrian struggle is over. The prophet has a...
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But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we
get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this
new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
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Amos 2:14; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 9:17; Psalms 33:16;
Psalms 34:10; Psalms 39:5...
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The youths — The youngest and strongest men, left to themselves....