Isaiah 57:20
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But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

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Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Job 15:20-24 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. . . .

Job 18:5-14 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Job 20:11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Proverbs 4:16,17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. . . .

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

Context
Healing for the Repentant
19I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. 20But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.21There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 59:8
They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

Jeremiah 49:23
Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

Lexicon
But the wicked
וְהָרְשָׁעִ֖ים (wə·hā·rə·šā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

are like the storm-tossed
נִגְרָ֑שׁ (niḡ·rāš)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1644: To drive out from a, possession, to expatriate, divorce

sea,
כַּיָּ֣ם (kay·yām)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it cannot
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be still,
הַשְׁקֵט֙ (haš·qêṭ)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 8252: To be quiet or undisturbed

and its waves
מֵימָ֖יו (mê·māw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

churn up
וַיִּגְרְשׁ֥וּ (way·yiḡ·rə·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1644: To drive out from a, possession, to expatriate, divorce

mire
רֶ֥פֶשׁ (re·p̄eš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7516: Mire

and muck.
וָטִֽיט׃ (wā·ṭîṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2916: Mud, clay, calamity


Additional Translations
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.

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

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

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

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
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