2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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(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:
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here the apostle’s solemn profession of a great concern for the nation and people of the Jews—that he was heartily troubled that so many of them were enemies to the gospel, and out of the way of salvation. For this he had great heaviness and continual sorrow . Such a profession as this was requisite to take off the odium which otherwise he might have contracted by asserting and proving the…
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