Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

In Context

20But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 59:8They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

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 →

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