 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...different ways to do some good in the world, and be ready to exclaim at last, judging from appearances, " I have laboured in vain : I have spent my strength for nought." Here I see the need of resignation. If I yield to my own heart, I shall fret, murmur, repine ; not... | |
 | Robert Means - Bible - 1836 - 622 pages
...DISCOURAGEMENTS AND CONSOLATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER. ISAIAH XLIX. 4. Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment w with the Lord, and my work with my God. THE words of the text were uttered... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...What were these, to satisfy the longing soul of the Redeemer ? We wonder not that he should exclaim, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." But yet he failed not, nor was discouraged. If by man he was treated with scorn, he enjoyed his heavenly... | |
 | John Young (M.A.) - 1837 - 248 pages
...my God shall be my strength." Jairus himself, by this very circumstance, was induced to exclaim, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain:" and when just on the eve of abandoning his work, and ignobly quitting the field of honourable exertion,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...destined me, from all worlds, to be a fit and perfect instrument of his service. XLIX. 4. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is iMth the LORD, and my work with my God. Then I said, I have omitted nothing... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - Bible - 1904 - 536 pages
...lamenting his little success, and ready to succumb to the difficulties he had to encounter: " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Also in this chapter as well as in chaps. 52 and 53 the sufferings that fall upon the servant are inflicted... | |
 | Hugh Black - Conduct of life - 1904 - 364 pages
...mistaken his vocation can come. Isaiah makes even the ideal servant of God exclaim, " I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." But in spite of that feeling, just because his work was done truly and sincerely he was able to continue,... | |
 | David Baron - Bible - 1907 - 404 pages
...me close ; And He said unto me, Thou art My servant Israel, in whom I will be glorified. But I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity : Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God. And now saith the... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - Bible - 1908 - 458 pages
...hid me ; and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 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. And now, saith the LORD that formed... | |
 | Bible - 1908 - 442 pages
...hid me ; and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 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. And now, saith the LORD that formed... | |
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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. 
