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Chooses a tree that will not rot;
He seeks for himself a skillful
workman
To prepare a carved image that will 40:28 Neither faints nor is weary. God was
not totter. not too weak to act on their behalf, nor was
fatigue an obstacle for the Creator in caring
21 Have you not known? for His people (vv. 29,30). Though even the
Have you not heard? young and strong become tired and fall, the
Has it not been told you from the Ancient of Days never does. unsearchable. To
beginning? the human mind,God’s wisdom is not fully com-
Have you not understood from the prehensible in how He chooses to fulfill His
foundations of the earth? promises to deliver Israel. Paul saw a further
22 It is He who sits above the circle of the illustration of this truth in God’s plan for the final
earth, restoration of Israel (Rom.11:33;see Is.40:13).
And its inhabitants are like
grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a And the young men shall utterly fall,
curtain, 31 But those who wait on the LORD
And spreads them out like a tent to Shall renew their strength;
dwell in. They shall mount up with wings like
23 He brings the princes to nothing; eagles,
He makes the judges of the earth They shall run and not be weary,
useless. They shall walk and not faint.
24 Scarcely shall they be planted,
Scarcely shall they be sown,
Scarcely shall their stock take root in
the earth, 40:31 wait on the LORD.There is a general prin-
When He will also blow on them, ciple here that patient, praying believers are
And they will wither, blessed by God with strength in their trials
And the whirlwind will take them away (2 Cor.12:8–10).The Lord also expected His peo-
ple to be patient and await His coming in glory
like stubble.
at the end to fulfill the promises of national
25 “To whom then will you liken Me, deliverance, when believing Israel would
Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the become stronger than they had ever been.
Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high,
And see who has created these things, Psalm 109:21–25
Who brings out their host by number;
21
He calls them all by name, But You, O GOD the Lord,
By the greatness of His might Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
And the strength of His power; Because Your mercy is good, deliver
Not one is missing. me.
22 For I am poor and needy,
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, And my heart is wounded within me.
And speak, O Israel: 23 I am gone like a shadow when it
“My way is hidden from the LORD, lengthens;
And my just claim is passed over by my I am shaken off like a locust.
God”? 24 My knees are weak through fasting,
28 Have you not known? And my flesh is feeble from lack of
Have you not heard? fatness.
The everlasting God, the LORD, 25 I also have become a reproach to them;
The Creator of the ends of the earth, When they look at me, they shake their
Neither faints nor is weary. heads.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak, Proverbs 26:2
And to those who have no might He 2 Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying
increases strength. swallow,
30 Even the youths shall faint and be So a curse without cause shall not
weary, alight.

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