 | John Berridge - 1838 - 592 pages
...few. The most part were not gathered into his net, or slipped through the meshes. Hear his complaint, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought. Yet he goes forward with this consideration, My work (or my reward) is with my God: Isai. xlix. 4.... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...tell his sorrows to God. - • "With great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart," he exclaims, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." If his conscience... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...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 progress... | |
 | Henry Blunt - Sermons, English - 1839 - 234 pages
...successfully. We will rest contentedly upon the promises of our God, and believe with the prophet of old, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God."3 "Though Israel be... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 598 pages
...of the gospel, who, amid many pleadings with a heedless flock, may often have been tempted to say, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain;" may cast his eye over a throng so numerous, so devoted, that while he secretly contrasts... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...ttiul. 3 And said unto me, Tlion art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, ations, and their countries, 19 And have f cast their and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and ||my work with my God. 5 1f And now, saitli... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 608 pages
...of the gospel, who, amid many pleadings with a heedless flock, may often have been tempted to say, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; " may cast his eye over a throng so numerous, so devoted, that while he secretly contrasts... | |
 | Eskimos - 1839 - 374 pages
...fruitless labour, he preached his farewell sermon from that striking text, Isa. xlix. 4, ' I said, I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.' His parting from the... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 612 pages
...worship, the minister closes the Book, and descends from the pulpit, exclaiming with regard to so many, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought." We need not wonder that our land of privilege, and of Bibles, and of freedom, is stained by crimes... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...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, and thy... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
