Isaiah 49:4

The Servant voices a sense of labor seemingly spent in vain, yet entrusts his cause and reward to God.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 35:4Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
• Gal 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
• Matt 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• Isa 53:10–12Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
• Matt 17:17Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
• Ezek 3:19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”
• 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
• Isa 65:23They will not labor in vain, nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed, and their descendants with them.
• Isa 62:11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”
• Isa 40:10Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
• 2 Cor 2:15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• Phil 2:9–10Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
• Lev 26:20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Rom 10:21But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
• Isa 65:2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
• John 17:4–5I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• Ps 22:22–31I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

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