Isaiah 49:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

I have laboured

Galatians 4:11

Spent

Leviticus 26:20

2 Corinthians 12:15

Yet

Hebrews 12:2

Work

Isaiah 40:10

Isaiah 62:11

General references

Proverbs 8:1

1 Corinthians 15:14

Bible References

I have laboured

I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;

But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

He came to his own, and his own received him not;

But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Spent

and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

Yet

Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected him to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?

I have glorified thee on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.

Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.

General references

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?

but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also is our preaching, and vain also your faith.