King James Version

Isaiah 40:30

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּveyiafvand faintיָעַףconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and faint”, an unfinished actionH3286to tire (as if from wearisome flight)faint, cause to fly, (be) weary (self).נְעָרִ֖יםnearimboyנַעַרnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “boy”, the ordinary formH5288(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).וְיִגָ֑עוּveyigavand faintיָגַעconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and faint”, an unfinished actionH3021properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toilfaint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.וּבַחוּרִ֖יםuvachurimand youngבָּחוּרconjunction, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “and young”, the ordinary formH970properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)(choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.כָּשׁ֥וֹלkasholfallכָּשַׁלverb, qal, infinitive absolute — “fall”, the verb used for emphasisH3782to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fallbereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, [idiom] utterly, be weak.יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּyikashelvfallכָּשַׁלverb, niphal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “fall”, an unfinished actionH3782to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fallbereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, [idiom] utterly, be weak.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;

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American Standard Version (1901)

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Young’s Literal Translation

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

World English Bible

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

Darby Translation

Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;

Douay-Rheims

Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Πεινάσουσι γὰρ νεώτεροι, καὶ κοπιάσουσι νεανίσκοι, καὶ ἐκλεκτοὶ ἀνίσχυες ἔσονται.