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Isaiah 49

Isa. 49:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I have labored
yaga` (Hebrew #3021)
properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil
KJV usage: faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
Pronounce: yaw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
in vain
riyq (Hebrew #7385)
emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity.
Pronounce: reek
Origin: from 7324
, I have spent
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
my strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
for nought
tohuw (Hebrew #8414)
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Pronounce: to'-hoo
Origin: from an unused root meaning to lie waste
, and in vain
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
: yet surely
'aken (Hebrew #403)
firmly; figuratively, surely; also (advers.) but
KJV usage: but, certainly, nevertheless, surely, truly, verily.
Pronounce: aw-kane'
Origin: from 3559 (compare 3651)
my judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
is with the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and my βwork
p`ullah (Hebrew #6468)
(abstractly) work
KJV usage: labour, reward, wages, work.
Pronounce: peh-ool-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6466
with my God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
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or, reward,
Isa. 40:10• 10Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his recompense before him. (Isa. 40:10)
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I have laboured.
Isa. 65:2• 2I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts. (Isa. 65:2)
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Ezek. 3:19• 19{i}But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.{/i} (Ezek. 3:19)
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Matt. 17:17• 17{i}And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.{/i} (Matt. 17:17)
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Matt. 23:37• 37{i}Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!{/i} (Matt. 23:37)
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John 1:11• 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not; (John 1:11)
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Rom. 10:21• 21but with regard to Israel he saith, “All the day long I spread out my hands toward a people disobedient and gainsaying.” (Rom. 10:21)
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Gal. 4:11• 11I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have laboured in vain as to you. (Gal. 4:11)
spent.
Lev. 26:20• 20and your strength shall be spent in vain; and your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. (Lev. 26:20)
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2 Cor. 12:15• 15And I most gladly will spend and be spent for your souls, if even more abundantly loving you I am less loved. (2 Cor. 12:15)
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Isa. 53:10‑12• 10Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
 11From the travail of his soul shall he see, he shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct the many in righteousness; and he shall bear their iniquities.
 12Therefore will I assign him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isa. 53:10‑12)
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Psa. 22:22‑31• 22I will declare thy name unto my brethren,{HR}In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
 23Ye who fear Jehovah, praise him;{HR}All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;{HR}And fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
 24For he hath not despised nor hath he abhorred the affliction of the poor,{HR}And he hath not hidden his face from him,{HR}And when he cried for help unto him, he heard.
 25Of thee [is] my praise in the great congregation;{HR}I will perform my vows before those who fear him.
 26The humble eat and are satisfied;{HR}They praise Jehovah, who seek him;{HR}Your heart shall live forever.
 27All the ends of the earth shall remember{HR}And shall turn unto Jehovah,{HR}And all tribes of Gentiles shall bow down before thee.
 28For the kingdom is Jehovah's;{HR}And he ruleth among the Gentiles.
 29All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and shall bow down;{HR}Before him shall bend all those who go down to the dust,{HR}And he [who] hath not kept alive his soul.
 30A seed shall serve him;{HR}It shall be declared by the Lord to the generation;
 31They shall come and shall tell his righteousness{HR}To a people that shall be born,{HR}That he hath done [it]. (Psa. 22:22‑31)
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Luke 24:26• 26Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? (Luke 24:26)
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John 17:4‑5• 4I glorified thee on the earth, having finished the work which thou hast given me to do;
 5and now do thou, Father, glorify me along with thyself with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was. (John 17:4‑5)
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2 Cor. 2:15• 15Because we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those to be saved, and in those that perish: (2 Cor. 2:15)
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Phil. 2:9‑10• 9Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave him the name that [is] above every name,
 10that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings], (Phil. 2:9‑10)
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Heb. 12:2• 2looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)
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or, reward.
Isa. 40:10• 10Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his recompense before him. (Isa. 40:10)
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Isa. 62:11• 11Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his recompense before him. (Isa. 62:11)
• The lament of the Messiah, having wooed Israel in vain, is found in verse 4, and it was historically verified, as we are told in Luke 13:34. (“Isaiah 49” by F.B. Hole)
• The supreme example of this is found in our Lord Himself. He came, as the Apostle Paul states, “A Minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers” (Rom. 15:8); but, rejected by “the circumcision”, His mission from that standpoint was marked by failure. He did indeed labor, but it was “in vain”. His strength was put forth, but “for naught”. Thus it was to all appearance, and according to the judgment of man. (“Isaiah 49” by F.B. Hole)
• “Yet”, says the Messiah, “surely My judgment is with the Lord and My work with My God.” His labor, His work, the exertion of His strength was not in vain, for God had entrusted to His Servant a task far deeper and wider and more wonderful than being just “a Minister of the circumcision”, as we shall find intimated in our chapter, though we must travel into the New Testament to get a full view of its greatness. (“Isaiah 49” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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—And I said, I havea laboured in vain, I have spent my strength forb nought and in vain; nevertheless myc judgment is with Jehovah, and myd work with my God.

JND Translation Notes

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The Hebrew word implies exhausting labour.
b
As ch. 40.17,23.
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Or "right."
d
Or "wages."

W. Kelly Translation

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And I saida, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain; nevertheless my judgment [is] with Jehovah, and my work with my God.

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Says Christ.