Romans 9:2
I tell you that I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] about my fellow Israelites.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:35Samuel never saw Saul again, but he was very sad about what Saul had done. And Yahweh was very sorry that he had appointed Saul to be the king of Israel.
Isaiah 66:10You people in [APO] Jerusalem, rejoice! And all you people who love Jerusalem should also be happy. You people who were sad because of what happened to Jerusalem, you should now be glad.
Jeremiah 13:17And if you still refuse to heed what he says, what will happen to you because of your being proud will cause me to cry when I am alone. My eyes will be filled with tears because you, Yahweh’s people, whom he takes care of like a shepherd takes care of [MET] his flock, will all be captured by your enemies and taken to other countries.
Lamentations 3:48I cry a lot because my people have been destroyed.
Ezekiel 9:4and said to him, “Go throughout Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who are very sad [DOU] because of the detestable things that are being done inside the city.”
Romans 10:1My fellow believers, what I deeply desire and what I pray to God earnestly for is that he will save my own people, the Jews.
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 →