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 day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts,

Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

Spent

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

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

Yet

But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him,

putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

I will tell of Your name to my brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

I glorified You on the earth,

having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the

author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Work

Behold, the Lord God will come with might,
With His arm ruling 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, “Lo, your salvation comes;

Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

General references

Does not wisdom call,
And understanding lift up her voice?

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.