Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “heathen” →
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Thus saith the LORD , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Therefore thus saith the LORD ; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
I have heard a rumour from the LORD , and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying , Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
