Isaiah 57:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 57:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Proverbs 4:16-17
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. …
Job 18:5-14
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. …
Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Job 20:11-29
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

The body of the people of Israel, in this account of God’s dealings with them, is spoken of as a particular person (Isa. 57:17, 18), but divided into two sorts, differently dealt with—some who were sons of peace, to whom peace is spoken (Isa. 57:19), and others who were not, who have nothing to do with peace, Isa. 57:20, 21. Observe here, I. The just rebukes which that people were brought under fo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. when it cannot rest--rather, “for it can have no rest” (Job 15:20, &c.; Pr 4:16, 17). English Version represents the sea as occasionally agitated; but the Hebrew expresses that it can never be at rest.