Isaiah 57:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

But the wicked are like the raging sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.

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  • Job 18:5-9 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe. 8 For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares. 9 The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him. 10 A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way. 11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete. 12 His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side. 13 It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength. 14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, & shal cause him to go to the King of feare.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are wtout water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees & without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.
  • Job 15:20-24 : 20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant. 21 A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him. 22 He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him. 23 He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande. 24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
  • Job 20:11-29 : 11 His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust. 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue, 13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, 14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him. 15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie. 16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter. 18 He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more. 19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not. 20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods. 22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him. 23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate. 24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through. 25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him. 26 All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed. 27 The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him. 28 The increase of his house shal go away: it shal flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the portion of the wicked man fro God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his wordes.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation. 19 How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed, 20 As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
  • Prov 4:16-17 : 16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall. 17 For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 21 There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.

  • 22 There is no peace, sayeth the Lorde, vnto the wicked.

  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12 Ah, the multitude of many people, they shall make a sounde like the noyse of the sea: for the noyse of the people shall make a sounde like the noyse of mightie waters.

    13 The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.

  • 17 The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

  • 26 A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, & a corrupt spring.

  • 7 As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is continually heard in her before me with sorowe and strokes.

  • 34 And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

  • 10 Arise and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, euen with a sore destruction.

  • 3 Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10 Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

    11 Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

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    4 The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.

  • 8 The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.

  • 30 And in that day they shal roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe darkened in their skie.

  • 7 He appeaseth the noyse of the seas and the noyse of the waues thereof, and the tumults of the people.

  • 23 Beholde, the tempest of the Lorde goeth foorth with wrath: the whirlewinde that hangeth ouer, shall light vpon the head of the wicked.

  • 3 Though the waters thereof rage and be troubled, and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same. Selah,

  • 6 Vpon the wicked he shal raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup.

  • 19 Beholde, the tempest of the Lorde goeth forth in his wrath, and a violent whirlewinde shal fall downe vpon the head of the wicked.

  • 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? Or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it?

  • 17 These are welles without water, and cloudes caried about with a tempest, to whome the blacke darkenes is reserued for euer.

  • Ps 107:26-27
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    26 They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.

    27 They are tossed to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.

  • 11 But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shalbe made salt pittes.

  • 16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

  • 13 They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are wandring starres, to whome is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer.

  • 31 (41:22) He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.

  • 30 The righteous shall neuer be remooued: but the wicked shall not dwell in the land.

  • 1 The burden of the desert Sea. As the whirlewindes in the South vse to passe from the wildernesse, so shall it come from the horrible land.

  • 37 And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the Lorde.

  • 7 The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.

  • 21 There shal none iniquitie come to the iust: but the wicked are full of euill.

  • 29 He turneth the storme to calme, so that the waues thereof are still.

  • 29 The bellowes are burnt: the lead is consumed in the fire: the founder melteth in vaine: for the wicked are not taken away.

  • 20 Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

  • 16 Thus sayeth the Lord which maketh a way in the Sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

  • 10 Therefore yet a litle while, and the wicked shall not appeare, and thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be found.

  • 14 They came as a great breach of waters, & vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.

  • 32 Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Behold, a plague shall goe foorth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shalbe raised vp from the coastes of the earth,

  • 18 For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.

  • 20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • 18 Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commaundements! then had thy prosperitie bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.

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

  • 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.

  • 4 The waues of ye sea are marueilous through the noyse of many waters, yet the Lorde on High is more mightie.

  • 13 Thou remainest in thy filthines and wickednes: because I would haue purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthines, till I haue caused my wrath to light vpon thee.

  • 26 The thoughts of ye wicked are abomination to the Lord: but the pure haue pleasant wordes.

  • 16 Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

  • 19 Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.