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

2 Corinthians 12:15

Yet

Hebrews 12:2

General references

1 Corinthians 15:14

Bible References

I have laboured

"O faithless and perverse generation!" Jesus exclaimed, "how long must I be among you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy here to me."

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!

He came to his own--yet his own did not receive him.

But of the people of Israel he says--'All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who disobey and contradict.'

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

Spent

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?

Yet

Was not the Christ bound to undergo this suffering before entering upon his Glory?"

I have honored thee on earth by completing the work which thou has given me to do;

For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God--both among those who are in the path of Salvation and among those who are in the path to Ruin.

And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the Name which stands above all other names,

our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God.

General references

And, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!