Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
Majority Standard Bible
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
21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Cross References
Job 15:20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being 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 →