Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
13 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “thing” →
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
One thing have I desired of the LORD , that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD , and to enquire in his temple.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing .
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is .
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD , and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD . Praise ye the LORD .