Isaiah 57:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Job 18:5-9 : 5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. 11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
  • Jude 1:12 : 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 15:20-24 : 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
  • Job 20:11-29 : 11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; 13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein]. 19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 ¶ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him. 26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
  • Prov 4:16-17 : 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 21 [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

  • 22 [There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12 ¶ Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

    13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • 17 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

  • 26 ¶ A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

  • 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.

  • 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

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

  • 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

    11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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    4 ¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

  • 8 The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  • 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

  • 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

  • 3 [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

  • 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.

  • 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

  • 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

  • 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

  • Ps 107:26-27
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    26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

    27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

  • 16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

  • 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

  • 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

  • 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

  • 1 ¶ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

  • 37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • 7 ¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 21 ¶ There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

  • 29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

  • 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

  • 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

  • 16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].

  • 14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

  • 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

  • 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

  • 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

  • 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

  • 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?

  • 7 ¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 4 The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.

  • 13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

  • 26 ¶ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.

  • 16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

  • 19 ¶ Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;