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 spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.

And if thou hast admonished the unjust one, and he turned not back from his evil and from his way of injustice; he shall die in his iniquity and thou deliveredst thy soul.

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

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to her; how often did I wish to gather thy children together, which manner a bird gathers together her young broods under the wings, and ye would not!

He came to his own things, and his own received him not.

And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.

I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain.

Spent

And your strength shall be exhausted to no purpose: and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

Yet

And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

I will recount thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the convocation I will praise thee.

Must not Christ suffer these things, and enter into his glory?

I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name:

Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold the Lord Jehovah will come in strength, and his arm ruling for him: behold, his reward with him and his work before him.

Behold, Jehovah caused to be heard to the extremity of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation coming: behold, his reward with him, and his work before his face.

General references

Shall not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?

And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain.