Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans 9:2 in other translations
| BSB | I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. |
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| WEB | that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. |
| ASV | that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. |
| YLT | that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart-- |
| DARBY | that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart, |
| BBE | That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. |
| Webster | That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
What does Romans 9:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 9:1-2
Ro 9:1-33. The Bearing of the Foregoing Truths upon the Condition and Destiny of the Chosen People--Election--The Calling of the Gentiles. Too well aware that he was regarded as a traitor to the dearest interests of his people (Ac 21:33; 22:22; 25:24), the apostle opens this division of his subject by giving vent to his real feelings with extraordinary vehemence of protestation. 1-2. I say the truth in Christ--as if…
Barnes' Notes
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.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 9:1-5
Chapter Outline The apostle's concern that his countrymen were strangers to the gospel. (1-5) The promises are made good to the spiritual seed of Abraham. (6-13) Answers to objections against God's sovereign conduct, in exercising mercy and justice. (14-24) This sovereignty is in God's dealing both with Jews and Gentiles. (25-29) The falling short of the Jews is owing to their seeking justification, not by faith…
Romans 9:2 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 9:2
- Philippians 3:18
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
- Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
- Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.
- Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
- Lamentations 3:51
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- Luke 19:41-44
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Lamentations 3:48-49
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
- Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Revelation 11:3
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
- Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- 1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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Context
- Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
- Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
- Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Romans 9:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que tengo gran tristeza y continuo dolor en mi corazón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | que j’ai une grande tristesse et une douleur continuelle dans mon cœur; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | daß ich große Traurigkeit habe und unaufhörlichen Schmerz in meinem Herzen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quoniam tristitia mihi magna est, et continuus dolor cordi meo. |