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 spread out my hands all the day to a {disobedient and (LXX/NT)} rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

Yet if thou warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul.

And having answered, Jesus said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

He came to his own, and his own did not accept him.

But to Israel he says, The whole day I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

Spent

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

Yet

Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand.

I will declare thy name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?

I glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work which thou have given me that I should do.

Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing:

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name,

Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold, lord LORD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Behold, LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

General references

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.