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