“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.”
The servant's lament—'But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God"'—voices the servant's doubt while affirming ultimate confidence in God. The sense of fruitless labor echoes exilic despair: effort appears to produce nothing. The shift from apparent failure to reliance on God suggests that vindication lies beyond visible results. This verse balances realism about present suffering with eschatological hope.
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