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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.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהָרְשָׁעִ֖יםve.ha.re.sha.'Imand the wicked [people]H7563 →
כַּיָּ֣םkai.Yam[are] like the seaH3220 →
נִגְרָ֑שׁnig.RashtossedH1644 →
כִּ֤יkiforH3588 →
הַשְׁקֵט֙hash.Ketto be quietH8252 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
יוּכָ֔לyu.Khalit is ableH3201 →
וַיִּגְרְשׁ֥וּvai.yig.re.Shuand they have tossed upH1644 →
מֵימָ֖יוmei.Mavwaters itsH4325 →
רֶ֥פֶשׁRe.feshmireH7516 →
וָטִֽיט׃va.Titand mudH2916 →

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Proverbs 4:16–17For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.Job 18:5–14Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.Psalms 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.Job 15:20–24A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.Job 20:11–29The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.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.Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.Revelation 14:11And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”Revelation 21:1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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