Biblical Concept: Sorry
Findings
God, sorry, grieved, heart.
Freewill plus a nature to sin plus angelic infiltration = rampant evil =
Divine sorrow. Compare Genesis
15:16b “for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."
God: “I am sorry that I have made them.”
God, destroying angel, Jerusalem, sorry, stop.
Job says:” Sorry comforters are you all.”
God re Judah: “I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion that I
should not destroy them.”
NAS Ezekiel
24:14 "I, the LORD, have
spoken; it is coming and I shall act. I shall not relent, and I shall not
pity, and I shall not be sorry; according
to your ways and according to your deeds I shall judge you,"
declares
the Lord God.'"
God is not sorry
about judging sin.
Herod: “the king
was very sorry”
Herod was not
sorry enough to do the right thing.
Government can be
not sorry enough to do the right thing.
Sorrow, sighing, failed strength, my iniquity.
NAS Proverbs
17:21 He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, And the father of
a fool has no joy.
Drunkards and
sorrow.
NAS Ecclesiastes
7:3 Sorrow is better than
laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.
Millennium:
“sorrow and sighing will flee away”
Jeremiah: “My
sorrow is beyond healing”
Jeremiah: “trouble
and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?”
NAS Proverbs
17:21 He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, And the father of
a fool has no joy.
Drunkards and
sorrow.
Millennium:
“sorrow and sighing will flee away”
Jeremiah: “My
sorrow is beyond healing”
Millennial: “give
them joy for their sorrow”
Jeremiah: “the
LORD has added sorrow to my pain”
Jesus re
disciples: “found them sleeping from sorrow”
NAS John
16:6 "But because I have
said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
Jesus to
Disciples: “you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy.”
Jesus re
Disciples: “you too now have sorrow”
Paul re Jews: “I
have great sorrow.”
Paul to Corinthians:
“I would not come to you in sorrow again”
Paul, Corinthians,
sorrow, relationship.
7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive
and comfort him, lest somehow such a
one be
overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance
without regret, leading to
salvation; but the sorrow of the world
produces death.
NAS John
16:20 "Truly, truly, I say
to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will
be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be
turned to joy.
Paradox: “as
sorrowful yet always rejoicing”
Compare Ecclesiastes
7:3-5 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, For
when a face is sad a heart may be
happy.
4 The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning, While the
mind of fools is in the house of
pleasure.
5 It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man Than for
one to listen to the song of fools.
“sorrows of those who have bartered for another god”
“Many are the
sorrows of the wicked”
NAS Psalm
35:14 I went about as though it
were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who
sorrows for a mother.
First Advent: A
man of sorrows.
First Advent: “our
sorrows He carried”
Undeserved
sorrows.
Favor, conscience,
sorrows, suffering unjustly.
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Sorry
NAS Genesis
6:6 And the LORD was sorry that
He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (God, sorry,
grieved, heart.) (Freewill plus a nature to sin plus angelic infiltration =
rampant evil = Divine sorrow.) (Compare Genesis 15:16b “for the iniquity
of the Amorite is not yet complete.")
7 And the LORD said, "I will
blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals
to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made
them." (God: “I am sorry that I have made them.”)
NAS Judges
21:6 And the sons of Israel were
sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe is cut off from
Israel today.
15 And the people were sorry for
Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
NAS 1 Samuel
22:8 "For all of you have
conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son
makes a covenant with the son of
Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my
son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day."
NAS 1
Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an
angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw and was sorry over the
calamity, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now relax your
hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (God, destroying angel, Jerusalem,
sorry, stop.)
NAS Job 16:2 "I have heard many such things; Sorry
comforters are you all. (Job says:” Sorry comforters are you all.”)
NAS Psalm
90:13 Do return, O LORD; how long
will it be? And be sorry for Thy
servants.
NAS Jeremiah
13:14 "And I will dash them
against each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares the
LORD. "I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion that I should
not destroy them."'" (God re Judah: “I will not show pity nor be
sorry nor have compassion that I should not destroy them.”)
NAS Ezekiel
24:14 "I, the LORD, have
spoken; it is coming and I shall act. I shall not relent, and I shall not pity,
and I shall not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I
shall judge you," declares the Lord God.'" (All) (God is not sorry
about judging sin.)
NAS Mark
6:26 And although the king was
very sorry, yet because of his oaths
and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her. (Herod: “the king was very sorry”) (Herod was
not sorry enough to do the right thing.) (Government can be not sorry enough to
do the right thing.)
Sorrow
NAS Genesis
42:38 But Jacob said, "My
son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left.
If harm should befall him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my
gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow."
NAS Genesis
44:29 'And if you take this one
also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'
31 it will come about when he sees
that the lad is not with us, that he
will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair
of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
NAS Genesis
48:7 "Now as for me, when I
came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the
land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."
NAS Esther
9:22 because on those days the
Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it
was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from
mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and
rejoicing and sending portions of food to
one another and gifts to the poor.
NAS Psalm
13:2 How long shall I take
counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in
my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
NAS Psalm
31:10 For my life is spent with
sorrow, And my years with sighing; My strength has
failed because of my iniquity, And my body has wasted away. (Sorrow, sighing,
failed strength, my iniquity.)
NAS Psalm
38:17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
NAS Psalm
39:2 I was dumb and silent, I
refrained even from good; And my
sorrow grew worse.
NAS Psalm
90:10 As for the days of our
life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to
strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but
labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.
NAS Psalm
107:39 When they are diminished
and bowed down Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,
NAS Psalm
116:3 The cords of death
encompassed me, And the terrors of Sheol came upon
me; I found distress and sorrow.
NAS Proverbs
10:22 It is the blessing of the
LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.
NAS Proverbs
17:21 He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, And the father of
a fool has no joy. (All)
NAS Proverbs
23:29 Who has woe?
Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds
without cause? Who has redness of eyes? (Drunkards and sorrow.)
NAS Ecclesiastes
7:3 Sorrow is better than
laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.
(All)
NAS Isaiah
35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD
will return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. (Millennium: “sorrow
and sighing will flee away”)
NAS Isaiah
51:11 So the ransomed of the LORD
will return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion;
And everlasting joy will be on their
heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow
and sighing will flee away. (Millennium: “sorrow and sighing will flee away”)
NAS Jeremiah
8:18 My sorrow is beyond healing,
My heart is faint within
me! (Jeremiah: “My sorrow is beyond healing”)
NAS Jeremiah
20:18 Why did I ever come forth
from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that
my days have been spent in shame? (Jeremiah: “trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?”)
NAS Jeremiah
31:13 "Then the virgin shall
rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn
their mourning into joy, And will comfort them, and
give them joy for their sorrow. (Millennial: “give them joy for their sorrow”)
NAS Jeremiah
45:3 'You said, "Ah, woe is
me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and
have found no rest."' (Jeremiah: “the LORD has added sorrow to my pain”)
NAS Ezekiel
23:33 'You will be filled with
drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your
sister Samaria.
NAS Luke
22:45 And when He rose from
prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow, (Jesus re
disciples: “found them sleeping from sorrow”)
NAS John
16:6 "But because I have
said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. (All)
20 "Truly, truly, I say to
you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be
sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy. (Jesus to Disciples: “you
will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy.”)
21 "Whenever a woman is in
travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to
the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a child has been
born into the world.
22 "Therefore you too now have
sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes
your joy away from (Jesus re Disciples: “you too now have sorrow”)
NAS Romans
9:2 that I have great sorrow and
unceasing grief in my heart. (Paul re Jews: “I have great sorrow.”)
NAS 2
Corinthians 2:1 But I determined
this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. (Paul to
Corinthians: “I would not come to you in sorrow again”)
2 For if I cause you sorrow, who
then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? (Paul, Corinthians,
sorrow, relationship.)
3 And this is the very thing I
wrote you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those who ought to make
me rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be the joy of you all. (Paul, Corinthians,
sorrow, relationship.)
5 But if any has caused sorrow, he
has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree-- in order not to say too
much-- to all of you. (Paul, Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
7 so that on the contrary you
should rather forgive and comfort him,
lest somehow such a one be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. (All)
NAS 2
Corinthians 7:8 For though I
caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it-- for I see that that letter caused you
sorrow, though only for a while--(Paul, Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
10 For the sorrow that is according
to the will of God produces a
repentance without regret, leading to
salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (All)
11 For behold what earnestness this
very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of
yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging
of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the
matter. (Paul, Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
NAS Philippians
2:27 For indeed he was sick to
the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on
me, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Sorrowful
NAS Genesis
50:10 When they came to the
threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he
observed seven days mourning for his father.
NAS John
16:20 "Truly, truly, I say
to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be
sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy. (All)
NAS 2
Corinthians 2:2 For if I cause
you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? (Paul,
Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
4 For out of much affliction and
anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be made
sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.
(Paul, Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 6:10 as sorrowful yet
always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet
possessing all things. (Paul, Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.) (Paradox: “as
sorrowful yet always rejoicing”) (Compare Ecclesiastes 7:3-5 3
Sorrow is better than laughter, For when a face is sad
a heart may be happy. 4 The
mind of the wise is in the house of mourning, While the mind of fools is in the
house of pleasure. 5 It is
better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man Than for one to listen to the song
of fools.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 7:9 I now rejoice,
not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were
made sorrowful according to the will of God,
in order that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. (Paul,
Corinthians, sorrow, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews
12:11 All discipline for the
moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been
trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. (All)
Sorrows
NAS Psalm
16:4 The sorrows of those who
have bartered for another god will be
multiplied; I shall not pour out their libations of blood, Nor
shall I take their names upon my lips. (“sorrows of those who have bartered for
another god”)
NAS Psalm
32:10 Many are the sorrows of the
wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, lovingkindness shall surround him.
(“Many are the sorrows of the wicked”)
NAS Psalm
35:14 I went about as though it
were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a
mother.
NAS Isaiah
53:3 He was despised and forsaken
of men, A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men
hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. (First Advent: A
man of sorrows.)
4 Surely our griefs He Himself
bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves
esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. (First Advent: “our
sorrows He carried”)
NAS 1 Peter
2:19 For this finds favor, if for the sake of
conscience toward God a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.
(Undeserved sorrows.) (Favor, conscience, sorrows, suffering unjustly.)