He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
Isaiah 49:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord and my reward with my God.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in empty futility; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense is with my God. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But I said, “I have wearied myself in vain. I have used up my strength for nothing.” Nevertheless, the LORD will grant me justice; my reward is with my God. Catholic Public Domain Version And I said: "I have labored toward emptiness. I have consumed my strength without purpose and in vain. Therefore, my judgment is with the Lord, and my work is with my God." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain. Therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. |
He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
Many seek the favor of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.”
See, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; his reward is with him and his recompense before him.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my whole being shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
The Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, “Look, your savior comes; his reward is with him and his recompense before him.”
I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord— and their descendants as well.
But if you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their wicked way, they shall die for their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”
But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.