Isaiah 57:20
Good News Translation
But evil people are like the restless sea, whose waves never stop rolling in, bringing filth and muck.

New Revised Standard Version
But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud.

Contemporary English Version
The wicked are a restless sea tossing up mud.

New American Bible
But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be still, Its waters cast up mire and mud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

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Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Job 15:20-24 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. . . .

Job 18:5-14 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Job 20:11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Proverbs 4:16,17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. . . .

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:

Context
Healing for the Repentant
19I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. 20But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.21There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
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.

Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 59:8
They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

Jeremiah 49:23
Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

Isaiah 57:19
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