Biblical Concept: Weary
Observations from the evidence
God is wearied by: iniquities, man’s religions, words
Weary warnings: foolishness, religion wearies, weary of God, originality,
wealth, negative volition, sloth
Weary solutions: Jesus Christ / Messiah, positive volition, wait
Wearied
(Parentheses and underlines are mine.)
♠NAS Isaiah 43:23 "You have not brought to Me the sheep
of your burnt offerings; Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have
not burdened you with offerings, Nor wearied you with incense.
♠NAS Isaiah 43:24 "You have bought Me no sweet cane with
money, Neither have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; Rather you
have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.
(Iniquity wearies God’s volition.)
♠NAS Isaiah 47:13 "You are wearied with your many
counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who prophesy by the stars, Those
who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon
you. (Religion wearies.)
♠NAS Ezekiel 24:12 "She has wearied Me with
toil, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in
the fire! (Jerusalem, a rusty pot, wearied God’s volition.)
♠NAS Micah 6:3 "My people, what have I done to you, And how have I wearied you?
Answer Me. (Weary of God.)
♠NAS Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your
words. Yet you say, "How have we wearied Him?" In that you
say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He
delights in them," or, "Where is the God of justice?" (Ascribe/attribute God inaccurately.)
Wearies
♠NAS Ecclesiastes 10:15 The toil of a fool so wearies
him that he does not even know how to go to a city. (Fool, weary =
little benefit / enjoyment. )
♠NAS Isaiah 16:12 So it will come about when Moab presents
himself, When he wearies himself upon his high place, And comes
to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail. (Religion wearies.)
Weariness
♠NAS Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; In the night my hand was
stretched out without weariness; My soul refused to be comforted. (Positive volition not weariness.)
Wearisome
♠NAS Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome; Man is not
able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear
filled with hearing. (Context: The
vanity of originality leads to weariness.)
Weary
♠NAS Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I
dissolve my couch with my tears. (Lament
Psalm)
♠NAS Psalm 69:3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail
while I wait for my God. (Lament Psalm)
♠NAS Proverbs 23:4 Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
Cease from your consideration of it. (Weary, wealth, wasted life.)
♠NAS Proverbs 25:17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor's
house, Lest he become weary of you and hate you. (Weary your welcome.)
♠NAS Proverbs 26:15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again. (Sluggard, weary = little
enjoyment. )
♠NAS Isaiah 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and
your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them.
(Religion wearies God.)
♠NAS Isaiah 28:12 He who said to them, "Here is rest,
give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would
not listen. (Negative volition and weariness.)
♠NAS Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The
Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become
weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. (Understand God’s
omnipotence.)
29 He gives strength
to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power.
30 Though youths grow
weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,
♠ 31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain
new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run
and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. (Positive
volition: Wait versus weary.)
♠NAS Isaiah 43:22 "Yet you have not called on Me, O
Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel. (Weary of God.)
♠NAS Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God has given Me the tongue of
disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He
awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a
disciple. (Messiah’s word for the weary.)
♠NAS Jeremiah 6:11 But I am full of the wrath of the LORD: I
am weary with holding it in. "Pour it out on the
children in the street, And on the gathering of young men together; For both
husband and wife shall be taken, The aged and the very old. (God’s judgment of Jerusalem / Israel, wait /
weary, wrath.)
♠NAS Jeremiah 9:5 "And everyone deceives his neighbor,
And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They
weary themselves committing iniquity. (Israel’s sins leading to
judgment.)
♠NAS Jeremiah 20:9 But if I say, "I will not remember Him
Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning
fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I
cannot endure it. (Context: The
prophet must speak even though the people hate it.)
♠NAS Jeremiah 31:25 "For I satisfy the weary ones
and refresh everyone who languishes." (Messiah.)
♠NAS Matthew 11:28 "Come to Me, all who are weary
and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
(Jesus Christ, the weary solution.)
♠NAS Galatians 6:9 And let us not lose heart in doing good,
for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. (Positive volition, Spiritual success versus
weary.)
♠NAS 2 Thessalonians 3:13 But as for you, brethren, do not grow
weary of doing good. (Weary versus doing good: Part of Paul’s closing
statement to the Thessalonians.)
♠NAS Hebrews 12:3 For consider Him who has endured such
hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and
lose heart. (See 12:1-10, keep
spiritually improving versus weary.)
♠NAS Revelation 2:3 and you have perseverance and have endured
for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. (Perseverance and endured versus
weary.)
Wearying
♠Ecclesiastes 12:12 12 But
beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and
excessive devotion to books is
wearying to the body. (Miscellaneous)