Romans 9:2
that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart—
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
In Context
1Truth I say in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:35And Samuel has not added to see Saul until the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul, and YHWH regretted that He had caused Saul to reign over Israel.
Isaiah 66:10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, || And be glad in her, all you loving her, || Rejoice with her for joy, || All you who are mourning for her,
Jeremiah 13:17And if you do not hear it, || My soul weeps in secret places, because of pride, || Indeed, it weeps and wails, || And the tear comes down my eyes, || For the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.
Lamentations 3:48Streams of water go down my eye, || For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 9:4And He calls to the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe’s inkhorn at his loins, and YHWH says to him, “Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.”
Romans 10:1Brothers, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is—for salvation;
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:2-6
Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as… Read the whole commentary →