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Julia Smith Translation
And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God.
New American Standard Bible
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;
yet my vindication is with the Lord,
and my reward is with my God.
International Standard Version
"I said: "I've labored for nothing. I've exhausted my strength on futility and on emptiness.' Yet surely my recompense is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.
A Conservative Version
But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice [due] to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God.
American Standard Version
But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
Amplified
Then I said, “I have labored in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity (pride, uselessness);
However My justice is with the Lord,
And My reward is with My God.”
Bible in Basic English
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Darby Translation
And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.
King James 2000
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my due justice is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice [is] with Yahweh, and my reward [is] with my God."
Modern King James verseion
Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And I said, "I labour in vain and spend my strength for nought, and unprofitably. Howbeit, my cause I commit to the LORD and my travail unto my God."
NET Bible
But I thought, "I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing." But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
New Heart English Bible
But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God."
The Emphasized Bible
But I, said, To no purpose, have I toiled, For waste and mist - my vigour, have I spent, - Surely, my vindication, is, with, Yahweh, And, my recompence, with my God.
Webster
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
World English Bible
But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."
Youngs Literal Translation
And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 49:4
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Context Readings
Yahweh's Servant Brings Salvation
3 And he will say to me, Thou my servant, Israel, whom I will be honored in thee. 4 And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God. 5 And now, said Jehovah, forming me from the belly for servant to him to turn back Jacob to him, And Israel shall not be gathered, and I shall be honored in the eyes of Jehovah, and God was my strength.
Cross References
Isaiah 53:10-12
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.
Isaiah 65:23
They shall not labor in vain, and they shall not bring forth for terror; for they the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.
Leviticus 26:20
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
Psalm 22:22-31
I will recount thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the convocation I will praise thee.
Isaiah 35:4
Say to those hasty of heart, Be strong ye shall not fear; behold, your God will come with vengeance, the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
Isaiah 40:10
Behold the Lord Jehovah will come in strength, and his arm ruling for him: behold, his reward with him and his work before him.
Isaiah 62:11
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.
Isaiah 65:2
I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.
Ezekiel 3:19
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.
Matthew 17:17
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.
Matthew 23:37
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!
Luke 24:26
Must not Christ suffer these things, and enter into his glory?
John 1:11
He came to his own things, and his own received him not.
John 17:4-5
I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.
Romans 10:21
And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:
2 Corinthians 12:15
And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain.
Philippians 2:9-10
Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name:
Hebrews 12:2
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.