Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
12 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “houses” →
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. , etc
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
