2 Peter 2:17
Good News Translation
These people are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.

Contemporary English Version
These people are like dried up water holes and clouds blown by a windstorm. The darkest part of hell is waiting for them.

New American Bible
These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

are wells.

Job 6:14-17 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 14:3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

Hosea 6:4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

Jude 1:12,13 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots: . . .

clouds.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

mist.

darkness.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30 And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jude 1:6,13 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day. . . .

Context
Deliverance from False Prophets
16But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. 17These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved. 18For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:18
For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,

Jude 1:12
These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

2 Peter 2:16
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