| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...my servant Israel, for I will be glorious in thee." And yet for all this it followeth. " And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength in vain, and for nothing. But my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my k haiah, chsp. 49. vrr. 2, 3.... | |
| Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...instructions, and secretly enquires, " Who will shew me any good ?" And at times he has drawn the conclusion of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, the work of the Lord is not prospering in my hands." I doubt not these have often been... | |
| Sermons - 1834 - 740 pages
...number of his subjects, had received as yet but little or no Fulfilment. He exclaimed, by the mouth of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain — I have spent my strength for nought, and in Tain." The prospect, however, begins to brighten, as the solemn hour approached... | |
| John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1839 - 402 pages
...my faith failing much — the 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... | |
| Albert Badger - 1837 - 392 pages
...insufficiency and unsuccessfulness. For Isaiah, in the character of one of God's prophets, says, " Alas ! I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength in vain." No, saith God, " The word that thou hast preached shall not be in vain : though Israel be not gathered,... | |
| Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...instructions, and secretly enquires, " Who will shew me any good >" And at times he has drawn the conclusion of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, the work of the Lord is not prospering in my hands." We often hear complaints of the slow... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...and over those who did, he rejoiced with a peculiar love. Perhaps, he repeated mournfully the words of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." And a voice from heaven, answered in his heart, "Yet surely thy judgment is with the Lord,... | |
| J. Greaves - 1840 - 404 pages
...righteousness, is cause of great joy. In the Prophecies of Isaiah, Christ is made to say, in the words of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought; yet, though Israel be not gathered, shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my... | |
| Lancelot Andrewes - Sermons, English - 1843 - 612 pages
...It is not He sure. Then it is we. So one would think, so thought Esay. isa. 49. 4. "Alas," saith he, "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength in vain," I find I am deceived. But he receives answer of God it was not so. That neither he had preached the... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 pages
...comfort some weary soul! And, on the other hand, how frequently at times do we feel ready to say, like the prophet, "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought;" (Is. xlix. 4.) compelled to acknowledge, that, though Paul plant and Apollos water, God... | |
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