Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her –
Romans 9:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That I have bitter grief and incessant anguish in my heart. American Standard Version (1901) that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. Common English Bible I have great sadness and constant pain in my heart. Catholic Public Domain Version because the sadness within me is great, and there is a continuous sorrow in my heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart. |
Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her –
But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine, which was dealt out to me, which the Lord made me suffer on the day of his burning anger?
My eyes bring me grief because of the fate of all the women in my city.
‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.’
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation.
I speak the truth in Christ #– #I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit #– #
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.
For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.’
Even to the day of his death, Samuel never saw Saul again. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted he had made Saul king over Israel.