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Romans 9:2

I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Love;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Remnant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Earnestness-Indifference;   Solicitude;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hardening, Hardness of Heart;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Accursed;   Calvinists;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justification;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Evil;   Paul the Apostle;   Predestination;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Grief ;   Heart ;   Rejection;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Esau;   Plagues of egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Continual;   Heavy;   Sorrow;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Clay;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
King James Version (1611)
That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorrow in my heart.
King James Version
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
English Standard Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
New American Standard Bible
that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
New Century Version
I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness.
Amplified Bible
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
Berean Standard Bible
I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Contemporary English Version
my heart is broken and I am in great sorrow.
Complete Jewish Bible
my grief is so great, the pain in my heart so constant,
Darby Translation
that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
Geneva Bible (1587)
That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorow in mine heart.
George Lamsa Translation
That I am exceedingly sorrowful, and the pain which is in my heart never ceases.
Good News Translation
when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart
Lexham English Bible
that my grief is great and there is constant distress in my heart.
Literal Translation
that my grief is great, and a never ceasing pain is in my heart,
American Standard Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Bible in Basic English
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
Hebrew Names Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
International Standard Version
I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart,Romans 10:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
that I have great grief, and (that) the sorrow of my heart ceaseth not.
Murdock Translation
that I have great sorrow, and the sadness of my heart is unceasing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That I haue great heauinesse, & continuall sorowe in my heart.
English Revised Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
World English Bible
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
That I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
Weymouth's New Testament
when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of heart.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for greet heuynesse is to me, and contynuel sorewe to my herte.
Update Bible Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Webster's Bible Translation
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
New English Translation
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
New King James Version
that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.
New Living Translation
My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief
New Life Bible
I have much sorrow. The pain in my heart never leaves.
New Revised Standard
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart;
Douay-Rheims Bible
That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Revised Standard Version
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
that I have gret hevynes and continuall sorowe in my hert.
Young's Literal Translation
that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that I haue greate heuynesse & contynuall sorowe in my hert.
Mace New Testament (1729)
that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart.
Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm torn plumb in two

Contextual Overview

1 I am in Christ and I am telling you the truth. I am not lying. And my conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, agrees that what I say now is true. 2 I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness 3 for my own people. They are my brothers and sisters, my earthly family. I wish I could help them. I would even have a curse on me and cut myself off from Christ if that would help them. 4 They are the people of Israel, God's chosen children. They have the glory of God and the agreements he made between himself and his people. God gave them the Law of Moses, the Temple worship, and his promises. 5 They are the descendants of our great fathers, and they are the earthly family of the Messiah, who is God over all things. Praise him forever! Amen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 10:1, 1 Samuel 15:35, Psalms 119:136, Isaiah 66:10, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 13:17, Lamentations 1:12, Lamentations 3:48, Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 3:51, Ezekiel 9:4, Luke 19:41-44, Philippians 3:18, Revelation 11:3

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:11 - wept 2 Kings 22:19 - wept Ezra 10:1 - weeping Esther 8:6 - For how Esther 10:3 - seeking Psalms 13:2 - sorrow Psalms 31:10 - my life Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels Ezekiel 19:14 - This is Daniel 7:15 - was grieved Daniel 10:2 - I Daniel John 11:35 - General John 13:21 - he was 2 Corinthians 2:4 - out 2 Corinthians 6:10 - sorrowful 2 Corinthians 12:21 - that I Philippians 2:26 - full 1 Peter 1:6 - ye are

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 2:19
The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name.
Genesis 9:4
But I give you one command. You must not eat meat that still has its life (blood) in it.
Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his brothers who were outside the tent.
Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took a robe, put it across their shoulders, and walked backward into the tent. Then they covered their father without looking at him.
Genesis 35:5
Then Jacob and his sons left that place. The people in the surrounding cities wanted to follow and kill them, but God filled them with such great fear that they did not go after them.
Leviticus 26:6
I will give peace to your country. You will lie down in peace. No one will come to make you afraid. I will keep harmful animals out of your country. And armies will not come through your country.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals against you. They will take your children away from you. They will destroy your animals. They will kill many of your people. The roads will all be empty.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. This is the thing he appeals to Christ for the truth of, and calls in his conscience and the Holy Ghost to bear witness to. These two words, "heaviness" and "sorrow", the one signifies grief, which had brought on heaviness on his spirits; and the other such pain as a woman in travail feels: and the trouble of his mind expressed by both, is described by its quantity, "great", it was not a little, but much; by its quality it was internal, it was in his "heart", it did not lie merely in outward show, in a few words or tears, but was in his heart, it was a heart sorrow; and by its duration, "continual", it was not a sudden emotion or passion, but what had been long in him, and had deeply affected and greatly depressed him: and what was the reason of all this? it is not expressed, but may pretty easily be understood; it was because of the obstinacy of his countrymen the Jews, the hardness of their hearts, and their wilful rejection of the Messiah; their trusting to their own righteousness, to the neglect and contempt of the righteousness of Christ, which he knew must unavoidably issue in their eternal destruction; also what greatly affected his mind was the utter rejection of them, as the people of God, and the judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, he full well knew was coming upon them, and which he was about to break unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great heaviness - Great grief.

Continual sorrow - The word rendered “continual” here must be taken in a popular sense. Not that he was literally all the time pressed down with this sorrow, but that whenever he thought on this subject, he had great grief; as we say of a painful subject, it is a source of constant pain. The cause of this grief, Paul does not expressly mention, though it is implied in what he immediately says. It was the fact that so large a part of the nation would be rejected, and cast off.


 
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