Isaías 40

Isaías 40:31

Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become weary. (NASB: Lockman) English Translation of the Greek (Septuagint): but they that wait (continually) on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger. (Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton). Amplified: But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. [He 12:1, 2, 3.] (Amplified Bible - Lockman) ESV: but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. KJV: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; NET: But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired. (NET Bible) NIV: but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. NJB: but those who hope in Yahweh will regain their strength, they will sprout wings like eagles, though they run they will not grow weary, though they walk they will never tire. (NJB) NLT: but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (NLT - Tyndale House) Young's Literal: But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint! Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength: Is 8:17; 25:9; 30:18; Ps 25:3,5,21; 27:14; 37:34; 40:1; 84:7; 92:1,13; Ps 123:2; Lam 3:25,26; Ro 8:25; 1Th 1:10 Gain/renew/exchange - Jdg 16:28; Job 17:9; 33:24, 25, 26; Ps 103:5; 138:3; 2Co 1:8, 9, 10; 2Co 4:8, 9, 10,16; 2Co 12:9- note, 2Co 12:10-note Isaiah 40 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries WAITING FOR JEHOVAH Beloved, how do we wait? Or better yet, why would we choose to wait on anyone or anything? And finally, and more to the point, in the present passage what is required to wait for Jehovah? Is this wait not a wait of faith? Is it not a faith that lays hold of the "fringes of His ways" (cp Job 26:14, read context Job 26:6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)? Is it not a faith which sees the unseeable (He 11:1-note, faith "sees" God = He 11:27-note, cp 2Co 4:18, Ps 73:25-note, Ps 73:26-note). Is it not a faith which obeys (note on relationship between faith and obedience) in spite of the external (or even internal) turmoil (related to circumstances and/or people). Indeed, faith sees the tumult which is sorely tempting us not to wait on Jehovah, and chooses to see the temptation through the grid of the promise giving, covenant keeping God (His great Name Jehovah even emphasizing and undergirding the truth that He is a covenant keeping God.) Faith is the convinced, convicted heart reaching out to the Almighty (Shaddai) to readily receive His free grace in one its many and variegated forms (in this verse depicted as flight like an eagle! cp the availability of manifold/multicolored grace for manifold/multicolored trials - 1Pe 4:10KJV-note, 1Pe 1:6KJV-note). And so just as there is saving faith, there is also "waiting faith", faith that relies on and recalls the record of what God has done and/or declared, rather than relying on "an arm of flesh" (2Chr 32:8a). A waiting faith is a faith that allows one to sit still and know that Jehovah is God (Ps 46:10-note), the Living God (Ps 42:2-note), Who alone can be relied on to accomplish His good will and work in and through our life. And sometimes His method of achieving His goal is to have us wait. In sum, the wait of faith is not easy for it may bring death to our desires and dreams (Mk 8:34, Lk 9:23, but it is a wait that is necessary if we would "mount up with wings like eagles". Faith is often challenged by waiting, but we are able to wait if we really believe what God has told us. In the present context, those who wait (hope in Isa 40:31NIV) for Jehovah are those who place their faith in Him and ultimately in His Messiah, i.e., those Jewish believers who constitute the faithful remnant. William