Isaiah 49:4
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

Young's Literal Translation
And I said, ‘For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment [is] with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
But I
וַאֲנִ֤י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

said,
אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I have labored
יָגַ֔עְתִּי (yā·ḡa‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3021: To gasp, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil

in vain,
לְרִ֣יק (lə·rîq)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7385: Emptiness, a worthless thing, in vain

I have spent
כִלֵּ֑יתִי (ḵil·lê·ṯî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

my strength
כֹּחִ֣י (kō·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

in futility
לְתֹ֥הוּ (lə·ṯō·hū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8414: A desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain

and vanity;
וְהֶ֖בֶל (wə·he·ḇel)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

yet
אָכֵן֙ (’ā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 403: Firmly, surely, but

my vindication
מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י (miš·pā·ṭî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

is with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

the LORD,
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and my reward
וּפְעֻלָּתִ֖י (ū·p̄ə·‘ul·lā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6468: A work, recompense

is with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

my God.”
אֱלֹהָֽי׃ (’ĕ·lō·hāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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