Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “labour” →
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
