 | Hugh Pearson - Missions - 1834 - 666 pages
...and sink in trouble. The words of Christ from Isaiah xlix. 4. often occur to my mind. ' 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.' But indeed, the following verse... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1839 - 402 pages
...enemy attacking on either hand; so that I was ready to cry out in the language of the prophet — " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." But some encouragement was felt in remembering where his confidence was fixed, when he said, x Yet... | |
 | John Howe - Puritans - 1835 - 662 pages
...chapter, it is said, " Thou art my servant, О Israel, in whom 1 will be glorified." And verse 4th, "I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." That name of Israel is put upon him, as sometimes, elsewhere, the name of Jacob ¡я, as signifying... | |
 | Christian Frederick Swartz - India - 1835 - 436 pages
...trouble. The words of Christ from Isaiah xlix. 4, often occur to my mind. ' Then I said, I have labored 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.' But indeed, the following verse... | |
 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...useless, he is often ready to lay down his commission at his Master's feet, to say, " I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." Bound to engage at the times appointed, and knowing what is expected from him, in his perplexity arising... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1835 - 568 pages
...made mention of my name and said unto me, Thou art my servant in whom I will be gloriued. Then said I, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, — yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord that... | |
 | Hugh Pearson - Christians - 1835 - 434 pages
...trouble. The words of Christ from Isaiah xlix. 4, often occur to my mind. ' Then I said, I have labored 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.' But indeed, the following verse... | |
 | Joseph Jowett - 1835 - 344 pages
...is prophetically described, as mourning over the possibility of such a disappointment: "Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." ' In stedfast faith, however, he leaves his judgment with the Lord, and his work with his God ; and... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...introduced as complaining thus of the Jews (or old church of God) who received him not : " Then I said, I have laboured in vain: I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." But the Lord said : " It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant, to raise up the tribes... | |
 | Seth Williston - New England theology - 1836 - 664 pages
...and iii. 19, 32. The evangelical prophet represents him as uttering this complaint, " I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." Isa. xlix. 4. Here is a practical demonstration, that the gospel offer can not be so advantageously... | |
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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. 
