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 obstinate people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation. How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not.

He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him.

But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Spent

and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Yet

Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him and make him ill. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold, the Lord GOD 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, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'"

General references

Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

If Christ has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.