Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the raging sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.
Geneva Bible 1599
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, sayth my God, to the wicked.
Cross References
Job 15:20The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
Job 20:11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
Isaiah 48:22There is no peace, sayeth the Lord, vnto the wicked.
Jude 1:12These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are without water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees and without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.
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 →