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 unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Yet 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.

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Spent

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Yet

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD 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 Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

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

General references

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

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.