| Lynn McDonald - Religion - 2006 - 598 pages
...than we are, "who cannot explain the 'origin of evil.' " The prophet was despairing at Isaiah 49:4: "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought . . . yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." Nightingale, in a note dated... | |
| James Shane - Religion - 2002 - 710 pages
...24:17 3 And mid unto me. Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified, 4 Then 1 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. 5 And now, saith the Lord that formed... | |
| John Lacy - Religion - 2003 - 596 pages
...contrary, we have in Holy Writ more evidences of their being so than otherwise; for, I have Labor'd in Vain, I have spent my Strength for nought and in Vain, And who &c "hath believed our report?" saith Isaiah: "unto whom shall I speak?" saith Jeremiah. Nay,... | |
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