Isaiah 57:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But the wicked are lyke the raging sea that can not rest, whose water fometh with the mire and grauell.

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  • Job 18:5-9 : 5 Yea, the light of the vngodly shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steppes of his strength shalbe restrayned, and his owne counsaile shall cast him downe: 8 For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares. 9 The grinne shall take him by the heele, and it shall catche him that is thirstie of blood. 10 The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way. 11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afraide on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete. 12 Hunger shalbe his strength, and destruction shalbe redye at his side. 13 It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength. 14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 But wo be vnto the wicked, for it shalbe euyll with hym: for he shalbe rewarded after his owne workes.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spottes in your feastes of charitie, whe they feast with you, without al feare feedyng the selues: cloudes they are without water, caryed about of windes, corrupt trees, and without fruite, twise dead, and plucked vp by the rootes:
  • Job 15:20-24 : 20 The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen. 21 A feareful sounde is euer in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him. 22 He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes. 23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande. 24 Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.
  • Job 20:11-29 : 11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth. 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue. 13 That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte. 14 The bread that he did eate, is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye. 15 The riches that he deuoured shall he parbreake againe: for God shall drawe them out of his belly. 16 He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him: 17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter. 18 The thing he hath laboured for, shall he restore, and shall not eate of it: great trauaile shall he make for riches, but he shall not enioy them. 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them. 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape. 21 There shall none of his meate be left, therefore shall no man loke for his goodes. 22 When he had plenteousnesse of euery thing, yet was he poore, though he was helped on euery side. 23 And it shall come to passe, that wherewith he purposed to fill his belly, God shall powre the furie of his wrath theron, and shall cause his indignation to raigne vpon him, and vpon his meate. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bowe of steele shall strike him through. 25 The arowe is taken foorth and gone out of the quiuer, and a glistering sword through the gall of him: so feare shall come vpon him. 26 All darknesse shalbe hid in their secrete places, an vnkindled fire shal consume him: and loke what remaineth in his house, it shalbe destroyed. 27 The heauen shal declare his wickednesse, and the earth shall take part against him. 28 The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken away and perishe in the day of the Lordes wrath. 29 This is the portion that the wicked man shal haue of God, and the heritage that he may loke for of God, because of his wordes.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
  • Prov 4:16-17 : 16 For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme. 17 For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.

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  • 21Euen so the wicked haue no peace, saith God.

  • 22As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saith the Lorde.

  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12Wo shalbe to the multitude of much people, which shall make a sounde lyke to the noyse of the sea, and the violence of the nations which shall rage lyke the russhyng in of many waters.

    13Euen lyke many waters shal the people rage, God shall rebuke hym, and he shal flee farre of, he shalbe chased away lyke as drye strawe vpon the mountaynes before the wynde, and lyke a thyng that turneth before the storme.

  • 17There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:

  • 26A righteous man fallyng downe before the vngodly, is like a troubled wel, and a spring that is corrupted.

  • 7Like as a conduite spouteth out waters, so she spouteth out her wickednesse: Robberie and vnrighteousnesse is hearde in her, sorowe and woundes are euer there in my sight.

  • 34He maketh a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

  • 10Up, get you hence, for here shall ye haue no rest: because the lande is defiled, it shall destroy you which vtter destruction.

  • 3Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it.

    11Malice is in the midst of it: disceipt and guyle go not out of her streates.

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    4As for the vngodly it is not so with them: but they are like the chaffe which the winde scattereth abrode.

  • 8But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.

  • 30In that day he shalbe so fierce vpon him as the raging of the sea: then one shall beholde the lande, and lo darkenesse and sorow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.

  • 7Who stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noyse of his waues: and the vprore of the people.

  • 23Beholde, on the other syde shall the wrath of the Lorde breake out as a stormie water, as a myghtie whirle wynde, and shall fall vpon the heades of the vngodly.

  • 3Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountaynes shake at the surges of the same. Selah.

  • 6Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke.

  • 19Beholde, the stormie weather of the Lorde that is his indignation, shall go foorth, and a violent whirlewinde shall fall downe vpon the head of the vngodly.

  • 22Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.

  • 17These are welles without water, cloudes that are caryed with a tempest, to whom the mist of darknesse is reserued for euer.

  • Ps 107:26-27
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    26Then they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble.

    27They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.

  • 11But the marishes thereof, and the pits thereof, shal not be made holsome, they shalbe made salt pits.

  • 16How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water.

  • 13They are the ragyng waues of the sea, fomyng out their owne shame: They are wandryng starres, to whom is reserued the mist of darknes for euer.

  • 31He maketh the deepe to boyle lyke a pot, and stirreth the sea together lyke an oyntment.

  • 30The ryghteous shall neuer be ouerthrowen: but the vngodly shall not remayne in the lande.

  • 1The burthen of the waste sea. Euen as the stormie weather passeth through at the noone day from the wildernesse, so shall it come from the terrible lande.

  • 37And their best fieldes lye dead, because of the horrible wrath of the Lorde.

  • 7The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

  • 21There shall no aduersitie happen vnto the iust: but the vngodly shalbe fylled with miserie.

  • 29For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still.

  • 29The bellowes are brent in the fire, the leade is not moulten, the melter melteth in vayne, for the euill is not taken away from them.

  • 20Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

  • 16Thus saith the Lorde, euen he that maketh away in the sea, and a foote path in the mightie waters.

  • 10Looke at them yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be there

  • 14They fell vpon me, as it had ben the breaking in of waters, and came in by heapes to destroy me.

  • 32For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes, Beholde, a miserable plague shall go from one people to another, and a great stormie water shall arise from all the endes of the earth.

  • 18For vngodlynesse burneth as a fire, and shall deuour bryers and thornes, and it shall burne as in the thicket of a wood, and the wicked aduaunce them selues, as the smoke is caryed vp.

  • 20For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.

  • 18O that thou hadst regarded my commaundementes, then had thy wealthynesse ben as the water streame, and thy ryghteousnesse as the waues flowyng in the sea:

  • 14And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them.

  • 7Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they notwithstandyng shalbe destroyed for euer and euer.

  • 4God which is on high, is more puissaut then the noyse of many waters: then the mightie waues of the sea.

  • 13In thy filthynesse is wickednesse: because I would haue purged thee, and thou wast not purged, from thy filthynesse thou shalt not be purged any more, till I haue caused myne indignation to rest in thee.

  • 26The Lorde abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked: but the wordes of the pure are pleasaunt.

  • 16Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.

  • 19Fret not thy selfe because of the malitious, neither be enuious at the wicked: