Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
16 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “end” →
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Mark the perfect man , and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
LORD , make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am .
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Teach me, O LORD , the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
