Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Darby Translation
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 the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
Job 20:11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
Isaiah 48:22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, unto the wicked.
Jude 1:12These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
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 →