Romans 9:2

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I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because people do not keep Your law.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
  • Lam 3:51 : 51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 As he approached and saw the city, he wept over it. 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.' 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Phil 3:18 : 18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ, as I have often told you, and now I tell you again with tears.
  • 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 Samuel never saw Saul again until the day of his death. Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Streams of water run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eyes pour without ceasing, without relief,
  • Isa 66:10 : 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; join in her joy, all you who mourn over her.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only I had a place to stay in the wilderness, a travelers' shelter, so that I might leave my people and go away from them. For they are all adulterers, a gathering of traitors.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.

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  • 1 I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms this through the Holy Spirit.

  • 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 2:1-5
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    1 I decided this for myself: that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

    2 For if I grieve you, who then will make me glad but the one who is grieved by me?

    3 I wrote this very thing to you so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to bring me joy. I have confidence in all of you, that my joy is your joy.

    4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love I have for you more abundantly.

    5 Now if anyone has caused sorrow, they have not grieved me alone but to some degree—not to overburden you—they have grieved all of you.

  • 8 For God is my witness, how I yearn for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

  • 17 For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."

  • 2 Cor 7:3-4
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    3 I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

    4 I have great confidence in you; I take great pride in you. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our afflictions.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8 For even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it at first, I see that this letter grieved you, though only for a while.

    9 Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God intended, so that you would not suffer any loss from us.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 Since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard he was sick.

    27 Indeed, he was so sick he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

    28 For this reason, I am all the more eager to send him so that when you see him again, you may rejoice and I may be less anxious.

  • 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

  • 8 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.

  • 30 since you are experiencing the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

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    27 I have labored and toiled and often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

    28 Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my concern for all the churches.

    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

  • 1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

  • 9 For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness that I unceasingly mention you

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 You have not handed me over to the enemy, but you have set my feet in a spacious place.

    10 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • 8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the trouble we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.

  • 18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • 19 Woe to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, 'This is my suffering, and I must endure it.'

  • 13 I had no peace in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

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    15 But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

    16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to do so. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

  • 4 From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.

  • 8 For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • 21 When my heart was embittered and my spirit was pierced within me,

  • 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

  • 13 I wanted to keep him with me so that he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel on your behalf.

  • 9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.

  • 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.

  • 10 Therefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

  • 17 From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

  • 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

  • 23 'Except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that chains and afflictions await me.'

  • 4 I long to see you, as I remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

  • 23 I call God as my witness and stake my life on it: it was to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

  • 2 If I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 20 See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in anguish within, my heart is overturned because I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

  • 13 Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • 18 In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

  • 15 What happened to your blessedness? I testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.