Isaiah 49:4

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."

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he responded: "I have been very zealous on behalf of the Lord, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant. They have torn down your altars. They have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone remain. And they are seeking my life, so that they may take it away."

Proverbs 29:26

Many demand the face of the leader. But the judgment of each one proceeds from the Lord.

Isaiah 25:1

O Lord, you are my God! I will exalt you, and I will confess your name. For you have accomplished miracles. Your plan, from antiquity, is faithful. Amen.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to the fainthearted: "Take courage and fear not! Behold, your God will bring the vindication of retribution. God himself will arrive to save you."

Isaiah 40:10

Behold, the Lord God will arrive in strength, and his arm will rule. Behold, his reward is with him, and his work is before him.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say this, O Jacob, and why do you speak this way, O Israel? "My way has been hidden from the Lord, and my judgment escaped notice by my God."

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.

Isaiah 59:18

This was for vindication, as a repayment of indignation to his adversaries, and as a sudden reversal for his enemies. He will repay the islands in their turn.

Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, and my soul will exult in my God. For he has clothed me with the vestments of salvation, and he has wrapped me in the clothing of justice, like a groom arrayed with a crown, and like a bride adorned with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:11

Behold, the Lord has caused it to be heard to the ends of the earth. Tell the daughter of Zion: "Behold, your Saviour approaches! Behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him."

Isaiah 65:2

I have extended my hands all day long to an unbelieving people, who advance along a way that is not good, following their own thoughts,

Isaiah 65:23

My elect will not labor in vain, and they will not bring forth in disorder. For they are the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity are with them.

Ezekiel 3:19

But if you announce it to the impious man, and he is not converted from his impiety and from his impious way, then indeed he will die in his iniquity. But you will have delivered your own soul.

Leviticus 26:20

Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you. How often I have wanted to gather your children together, in the way that a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you were not willing!

Luke 24:26

Was not the Christ required to suffer these things, and so enter into his glory?"

John 1:11

He went to his own, and his own did not accept him.

Romans 10:21

Then to Israel he says: "All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who do not believe and who contradict me."

2 Corinthians 12:15

And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.

Philippians 2:16

holding to the Word of Life, until my glory in the day of Christ. For I have not run in vain, nor have I labored in vain.

Hebrews 12:2

Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.