4Then 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.
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Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. An auditory is summoned together and attention demanded. The sermon in the foregoing chapter was directed to the house of Jacob and the people of Israel, Isa. 49:1 , 12 . But this is directed to the isles (that is, the Gentiles, for they are called the isles of the Gentiles , Gen. 10:5) and to the people from far , that were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel , and afar off. Let thes…
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