Romans 9:2
Good News Translation
when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart

New Revised Standard Version
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Contemporary English Version
my heart is broken and I am in great sorrow.

New American Bible
that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Romans 10:1 Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king over Israel.

Psalm 119:136 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her.

Jeremiah 9:1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Lamentations 1:12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 3:48,49,51 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. . . .

Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.

Luke 19:41-44 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

Philippians 3:18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:

Revelation 11:3 And I will give unto my two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

Context
Paul's Concern for the Jews
1I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: 2That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:…
Cross References
Romans 9:1
I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

Romans 9:3
For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Romans 9:1
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