Isaiah 49:4

Tree of Life Version

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility. Yet surely the justice due to me is with Adonai, and my reward with my God.”

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

“I have been very zealous for Adonai-Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it!”

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek an audience with a ruler, but from Adonai one receives justice.

Isaiah 25:1

Adonai, You are my God, I will exalt You, I will praise Your Name, for You have done wonderful things, plans of old with steadfast faithfulness.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those with anxious heart, “Be strong, have no fear!” Behold, your God! Vengeance is coming! God’s recompense—it is coming! Then He will save you.

Isaiah 40:10

Look, Adonai Elohim comes with might, with His arm ruling 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 Adonai, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Isaiah 57:21

“There is no shalom,” says my God “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, so He will repay: wrath to His adversaries, retribution to His enemies. To the islands He will repay as due.

Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in Adonai. My soul will be joyful in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me in a robe of righteousness— like a bridegroom wearing a priestly turban, like a bride adorning herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:11

Behold, Adonai has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the Daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes! See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

Isaiah 65:2

I have stretched out My hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not labor in vain nor bear children for calamity. For they are the offspring of those blessed by Adonai, as well as descendants with them.

Ezekiel 3:19

Yet you, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

Leviticus 26:20

Also your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Matthew 17:17

And answering, Yeshua said, “O faithless and twisted generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 24:26

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

John 1:11

He came to His own, but His own did not receive Him.

Romans 10:21

But about Israel He says, “All day long I stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the aroma of Messiah to God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing—

Galatians 4:11

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

Philippians 2:16

holding fast to the word of life, so that I may boast in the day of Messiah that I did not run or labor in vain.

Hebrews 12:2

focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.