Isaiah 49:4

Modern English Version

Then 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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the favor of a ruler, but justice for man comes from the Lord.

Isaiah 25:1

O  Lord, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things; Your plans formed of old are faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will come and save you.”

Isaiah 40:10

Behold, the Lord God will come with a strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my justice escapes the notice of my God”?

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay: fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; to the islands He will make recompense.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful 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 ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:11

Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the ends of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all day to a rebellious people who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth children for trouble; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them.

Ezekiel 3:19

Yet if you warn 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 your soul.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield her increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Matthew 17:17

Then Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not!

Luke 24:26

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

John 1:11

He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.

Romans 10:21

But to Israel He says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

2 Corinthians 12:15

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are to God a sweet fragrance of Christ among those who are saved and among those who perish.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, lest I have worked for you in vain.

Philippians 2:16

Hold forth the word of life that I may rejoice on the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

Hebrews 12:2

Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.