Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to the wicked, saith the Lord God.
Cross References
Job 15:20The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
Job 20:11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
Isaiah 48:22There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.
Jude 1:12These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,
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 →