Isaiah 57:20
But the impious are like the raging sea, which is not able to be quieted, and its waves stir up dirt and mud.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
In Context
21There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.
Cross References
Job 15:20The impious is arrogant for all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil. And their sleep is quickly taken away from them, unless they have overthrown.
Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace for the impious,” says the Lord.
Jude 1:12These ones are defiled within their banquets, enjoying themselves and feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds, which are tossed about by winds; autumn trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:18-21
The Divine Forbearance and Mercy. ( b. c. 706.) 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord ; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose… Read the whole commentary →