 | John Goodwin - Redemption - 1840 - 774 pages
...my strength," Isa. xlix. 5. In the former verse he speaks thus in his representer : " 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." And immediately before... | |
 | John Henry Newman, John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams, William Palmer - 1840 - 532 pages
...bringing back primitive times. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us. Thank* be to God. Response 6. / said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with tlie Lord, and my work, with my God. He liath made my... | |
 | J. Greaves - 1840 - 404 pages
...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 God shall be... | |
 | Mary Ann Serrett BARBER - Missions - 1840 - 226 pages
...help of God, done all that man could do. Egede preached his farewell sermon from the text, " 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." After which he took... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 584 pages
...willing, but the flesh is weak (2.) The small success which crowns great efforts. This produces fainting. "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." "We have toiled all the night and caught nothing. "We have borne the burden and heat of the day," and... | |
 | Charles Frederick Pascoe - Missionaries - 1893 - 1010 pages
...one time the abusive or impure language of a crowd of hearers sent him to his home, ready to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." At another, their attention to his message rendered his vocation one of the happiest. The opponents... | |
 | ANDREW A. BONAR - 1894
...minister. He preached from morning till night, and yet with how small success! so that He could say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain." How often He was grieved by their unbelief! He marvelled at their unbelief. " Oh faithless... | |
 | Charles John Vaughan - Bible - 1894 - 336 pages
...results. The labour of days and weeks and months and years seems all • gone for nothing. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain. Not one life seems to have been altered by many expostulations, not one soul permanently... | |
 | Missions to Jews - 1902 - 474 pages
...considering, we see the distant shadow of the cross falling on our Saviour's path : — " But I said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity ; Yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, And My work (or recompense) is with My God." He... | |
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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. 
