Nehemiah 2:10

2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official ¹  heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.

Psalms 122:6-9

122:6 Pray ²  for the peace of Jerusalem!

May those who love her prosper! ³ 

122:7 May there be peace inside your defenses,

and prosperity ⁴  inside your fortresses! ⁵ 

122:8 For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors

I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

122:9 For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God

I will pray for you to prosper. ⁶ 

Romans 9:2-3

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ⁷  9:3 For I could wish ⁸  that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, ⁹  my fellow countrymen, ¹⁰ 

Romans 10:1

10:1 Brothers and sisters, ¹¹  my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites ¹²  is for their salvation.

¹ tn Heb “servant” (so KJV, ASV; NAB “slave”; NCV “officer.” This phrase also occurs in v. 19.

² tn Heb “ask [for].”

³ tn Or “be secure.”

⁴ tn or “security.”

⁵ tn The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.

⁶ tn Heb “I will seek good for you.” The psalmist will seek Jerusalem’s “good” through prayer.

⁷ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

⁸ tn Or “For I would pray.” The implied condition is “if this could save my fellow Jews.”

⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

¹⁰ tn Grk “my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

¹¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

¹² tn Grk “on behalf of them”; the referent (Paul’s fellow Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.