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Isaiah 57

Isa. 57:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
are like the troubled
garash (Hebrew #1644)
to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
KJV usage: cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, X surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
Pronounce: gaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
, when it cannot
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
rest
shaqat (Hebrew #8252)
to repose (usually figurative)
KJV usage: appease, idleness, (at, be at, be in, give) quiet(-ness), (be at, be in, give, have, take) rest, settle, be still.
Pronounce: shaw-kat'
Origin: a primitive root
w, whose waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
cast up
garash (Hebrew #1644)
to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
KJV usage: cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, X surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
Pronounce: gaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
mire
rephesh (Hebrew #7516)
mud (as roiled)
KJV usage: mire.
Pronounce: reh'-fesh
Origin: from 7515
and dirt
tiyt (Hebrew #2916)
mud or clay; figuratively, calamity
KJV usage: clay, dirt, mire.
Pronounce: teet
Origin: from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away)
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Prov. 4:16‑17• 16For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:16‑17)

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Isa. 3:11• 11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. (Isa. 3:11)
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Job 15:20‑24• 20All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
 21The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
 23He wandereth abroad for bread,--where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle. (Job 15:20‑24)
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Job 18:5‑14• 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
 6The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
 8For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
 9The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
 10A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
 11Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
 12His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
 13The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors: (Job 18:5‑14)
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Job 20:11‑29• 11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,
 13Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
 14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
 15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: *God shall cast them out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
 17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.
 19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
 20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
 21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
 23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
 24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
 25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
 26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
 28The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by *God. (Job 20:11‑29)
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Psa. 73:18‑20• 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
 19How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image. (Psa. 73:18‑20)
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Prov. 4:16‑17• 16For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:16‑17)
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Jude 12• 12These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; (Jude 12)
• The winds keep the sea in perpetual agitation. Satan, who is “the prince of power of the air”, keeps the wicked in a condition similar to the sea, and all their visible actions are like “mire and dirt.” (“Isaiah 57” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.