Isaiah 49:4 meaning and explanation
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
Isaiah 49:4, Berean Standard Bible
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The Servant speaks here, the figure God called from the womb in verse 1. He has just been named Israel and told that God will display his glory in him, yet his honest report is that the work has felt wasted, his strength spent for nothing.
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