Isaiah 40:30-31
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
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17 songs meet this passage
“Never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher”
The Show Goes On · Lupe Fiasco
resonates with Isaiah 40:30-31
The call to keep raising your arms despite exhaustion echoes the promise that those who hope are renewed in strength, though the song locates that strength in perseverance itself rather than in God.
Robot Boy · LINKIN PARK
resonates with Isaiah 40:29-31
The song's overall arc, from weariness to renewed strength, echoes the promise that those who wait find their strength renewed.
Another Love (Radio Edit) · Tom Odell
strains against Isaiah 40:29-31
The song assumes the depleted heart has no recourse; Isaiah promises strength renewed for those who wait on God. The contrast is not a rebuke but a question: is the well truly empty, or is there a source the song has not yet found?
“Uh-oh, runnin' out of breath, but I”
The Greatest · Sia
resonates with Isaiah 40:29-31
The exhausted runner who presses on mirrors the promise that those who wait on the Lord renew their strength, though here the source of strength is left unnamed.
Fight Song · Rachel Platten
strains against Isaiah 40:29-31
The song's strength is self-sourced ('my power's turned on'), whereas Isaiah locates renewed strength as a gift given to the weary who wait on God.
Wait On You (Reprise) [feat. Dante Bowe & Chandler Moore] · Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The song's entire closing movement is a direct musical expansion of this verse, naming the eagle, the running, the walking, the renewal of strength for those who wait on the Lord.
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly”
Blackbird · The Beatles
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The image of rising on renewed strength mirrors the song's picture of brokenness transformed into flight.
Speechless (Full) · Naomi Scott
strains against Isaiah 40:31
Isaiah's picture of rising on wings comes from waiting on the Lord; here the rising is framed as pure self-generated strength, with no source named beyond the self.
“We are rising with the tide”
Beyond (Reprise) · Auli'i Cravalho
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The image of rising strength mirrors the promise of renewed hope and endurance given to those who wait and trust.
“One day, I am gonna grow wings”
Let Down · Radiohead
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The hope of rising on wings answers this fragile wish, though the song never names where such strength would come from.
When I'm Back On My Feet Again · Michael Bolton
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The renewed strength to walk and not faint parallels the song's vow to stand tall and be strong again.
“I know I've gotta be strong”
One Last Cry · Brian McKnight
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The resolve to find strength after heartbreak echoes the promise that renewed strength comes to those who wait and press on.
I Believe I Can Fly · R. Kelly
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The whole flight and soaring imagery mirrors this promise that those who hope renew their strength and rise on wings, though the song locates the source of that strength mostly in the self rather than in God.
“I wanna fly like an eagle, to the sea”
Fly Like an Eagle · Seal
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The image of soaring like an eagle recalls the renewed strength Isaiah promises those who hope in the Lord, though the song leaves the source of that strength unnamed.
“I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly”
Breakaway · Kelly Clarkson
strains against Isaiah 40:31
Isaiah ties the strength to soar to waiting on the Lord; here the strength to fly is framed as entirely self-generated.
“Make me wanna spread my arms and fly”
Chariot · Gavin DeGraw
resonates with Isaiah 40:31
The longing to rise and fly recalls the promise that those who wait on the Lord renew their strength, a hope the song gestures toward without claiming.
“we don't need no wings to fly”
As Long As You Love Me (feat. Big Sean) · Justin Bieber
strains against Isaiah 40:31
Scripture ties soaring strength to hope in the Lord; the song substitutes romantic love as the source of that lift.