Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can never be at rest, but its waters cast up mire and dirt.
Leeser Tanakh
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, saith my God, to the wicked.
Cross References
Job 15:20All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.
Job 20:11[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed away, unless they cause some to stumble.
Isaiah 48:22There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
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 →