²⁶ seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

²⁶ and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members;

¹⁴ and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;

² of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

¹³ wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

³ I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

¹ So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

² that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

¹¹ for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

¹³ and Paul answered, `What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

¹⁷ And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, `Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these -- the flock -- what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'

²⁷ Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

²⁵ Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

³ To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

³⁷ And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

³⁹ and `the soul of' king David determineth to go out unto Absalom, for he hath been comforted for Amnon, for `he is' dead.