“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. — The πνεῦμα (pneuma, "Spirit") co-suffers (συναντιλαμβάνω, synantilambánō, "helps together") in human ἀσθένεια (astheneia, "weakness"). When believers lack knowledge of what to pray (οἶδα, oida, "know"), the Spirit's ὑπερεντυγχάνω (hyperentynchanō, "intercedes beyond") with ἀλάλητος στεναγμός (alálētos stenagmos, "groaning that cannot be uttered"). The Spirit's prayer transcends human speech.
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