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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;{HR}And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness{HR}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 desert of his hands shall be given him. (Isa. 3:11)
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Job 15:20‑24• 20All the days of the wicked he is in torment,{HR}And the number of years is laid up for the oppressor.
 21The voice of terrors [is] in his ears;{HR}In peace the destroyer falleth on him.
 22He despaireth of returning from the darkness,{HR}And he is marked out for the sword.
 23He wandereth for bread: where [is it]?{HR}He knoweth that ready at his hand is a day of darkness.
 24Trouble and anguish make him afraid,{HR}They overpower him, as a king ready for the onset. (Job 15:20‑24)
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Job 18:5‑14• 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,{HR}And the flame of his fire shall not shine.
 6The light in his tabernacle shall be dark,{HR}And his lamp shall be put out with him.
 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened,{HR}And his own counsel shall cast him down.
 8For by his feet is he driven into a net,{HR}And he walketh over the meshes;
 9The trap seizeth on his heel;{HR}The snare prevaileth over him;
 10His cord [is] hidden in the earth,{HR}And his trap upon the pathway.
 11Terrors shall terrify him around,{HR}And scare him at his footsteps.
 12His calamity [is] hungry,{HR}And destruction [is] ready at his side.
 13The first-born of death devoureth the parts of his skin —{HR}Devoureth his parts.
 14His confidence shall be torn out of his tent,{HR}And shall march him off to the king of terrors; (Job 18:5‑14)
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Job 20:11‑29• 11His bones were full of youthful vigour,{HR}Which will lie with him in the dust.
 12Though evil maketh sweet in his mouth —{HR}He hideth it under his tongue,
 13He is sparing of it, and will not let it go,{HR}And retaineth it in the midst of his palate —
 14His food is changed in his bowels,{HR}The poison of asps is within him.
 15Wealth hath he swallowed, and shall disgorge it:{HR}God will eject it again out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps:{HR}The tongue of the viper shall slay him.
 17He shall not gaze on rivulets,{HR}Flowings of streams of honey and butter.
 18What he laboured for, he shall restore, and not swallow.{HR}As the property his exchange, and he rejoiceth not,
 19For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;
 20For he knew no rest in his belly;{HR}He shall not escape with his desirable thing,
 21There is no remnant of his eating.{HR}Therefore his prosperity endureth not.
 22In the fullness of his superfluity he is straitened,{HR}Every hand of a wretch shall be upon him.
 23That it may be to the filling of his belly,{HR}He shall send against him the burning of his anger,{HR}And rain upon him with his food.
 24He fleeth from a weapon of iron,{HR}A bow of copper pierceth him through;
 25It is drawn, and it cometh out of the body,{HR}And the glittering sword proceedeth out of his gall:{HR}Upon him [are] terrors.
 26All darkness [is] hid for his treasures,{HR}A fire not blown consumeth him;{HR}It shall fare ill with what is left in his tent.
 27The heavens reveal his iniquity,{HR}And the earth riseth up against him.
 28The increase of his house departeth,{HR}Things that ran away in the day of his anger.
 29This [is] the portion of the wicked man from God [Elohim],{HR}And the heritage of his sentence from God [El]. (Job 20:11‑29)
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Psa. 73:18‑20• 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places,{HR}Thou hast caused them to fall into ruins.
 19How are they a desolation in a moment!{HR}They have passed, consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream on awaking, so, O Lord (Adonai),{HR}In arising, wilt thou despise their image. (Psa. 73:18‑20)
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Prov. 4:16‑17• 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief;{HR}And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness{HR}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, fearlessly pasturing themselves; clouds without water carried along by 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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