...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...