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Romans 9:2

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

KJV

ὅτι λύπη μοί ἐστιν μεγάλη καὶ ἀδιάλειπτος ὀδύνη τῇ καρδίᾳ μου.

Greek NT

quoniam tristitia mihi magna est, et continuus dolor cordi meo.

Vulgate

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

ASV

That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
λύπη
lupe
noun · 16×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
ἀδιάλειπτος
adialeiptos
adjective · 2×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὀδύνη
odune
noun · 2×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 9.—Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. But so far as regards this question of mental perturbations, we have answered these philosophers in the ninth book687687 C. 4, 5. of this work, showing that it is rather a verbal than a real dispute, and that they seek contention rather than truth. Among ourselves, accordi…
Chapter 17.—Of the Endless Glory of the Church. “And I saw,” he says, “a great city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them. And God sh…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:6 — Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
  • 1Sam 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.
  • 2Cor 6:10 — As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • 2Kgs 8:11 — And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
  • Esth 8:6 — For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
  • Ezek 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
  • Ezra 10:1 — Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and chi
  • Isa 66:10 — Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
  • Jer 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
  • Jer 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!
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • John 11:35 — Jesus wept.
  • Lam 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.
  • Lam 3:48 — Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lam 3:51 — Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
  • Luke 19:41 — And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
  • Phil 2:26 — For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
  • Phil 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:
  • Ps 31:10 — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  • Ps 119:136 — Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Ps 119:136 — Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Rev 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.
  • Rom 10:1 — Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.