Isaiah Chapter 57 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
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BBE Isaiah 57:20

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
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DARBY Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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KJV Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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WBT Isaiah 57:20


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WEB Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
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YLT Isaiah 57:20

And the wicked `are' as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - The wicked are like the troubled sea. A striking metaphor, but one which occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament, and once only in the New (Jude 1:13). The sea's restless action well expresses the unquiet of the wicked; and the mud and mire that it casts up resembles their evil thoughts and evil deeds. "There is no peace" for such persons, either bodily or spiritual, either in this world or the world to come.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) The wicked are like the troubled sea . . .--The promise of healing is, however, not unconditional. The acceptance of peace requires calmness; but for the wicked, whose thoughts are restlessly seething with evil ripening into act, this true peace is, in the nature of the case, impossible. We note the recurrence of the watchword of Isaiah 48:22, as indicating the close of another section of the prophecy. The MSS. and versions present a curious variation in Isaiah 57:21 : some "saith Jehovah," some "God," some "the Lord God." It would almost seem as if transcribers and translators had shrunk from the prophet's boldness in claiming God as in some special sense his God. It has a parallel, however, in Isaiah 7:13, and may be noted, accordingly, as one of the characteristic touches common to the two parts of Isaiah. The "Sea" of which Isaiah speaks may possibly have been the Dead Sea, casting up its salt bituminous deposits.