Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked is like the troubled sea, Which cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Noyes 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
21There is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked.
Cross References
Job 15:20“All his days the wicked man is in pain; Yea, all the years, that are laid up for the oppressor.
Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, But they shall lie down with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; Yea, their sleep is taken away, unless they have caused some to fall.
Isaiah 48:22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, for the wicked.”
Jude 1:12These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, without fruit, 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 →