Isaiah 57:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Isaiah 57:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But the wicked - All who are transgressors of the law and who remain unpardoned. The design of this is to contrast their condition with that of those who should enjoy peace. The proposition is, t...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it (z) cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (z) Their evil conscience always torments them and therefore they can never have rest, ( Isai...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A Gracious Promise to the Party of the Pious. This oracle is modelled on Isaiah 40, though the way is figurative. Yahweh commands that the Way of His adherents be raised and freed from obstacles. H...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44, the troubled sea . the sea when tossed. when . for.

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. But the wicked. Having formerly spoken of the “peace” which good men shall enjoy, he threatens that the wicked, on the contrary, shall have continual war and incessant uneasiness and dis...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 991 NO PEACE TO THE WICKED Isaiah 57:20-21 . The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wic...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But the wicked, &c.— Hence we learn, that the church at this time should be divided into two parties: besides the humble and penitent, confessors of truth, there should be the wicked; those who...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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, when it cannot rest - rather х kiy ( H3588 )...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  2. The peace of the grave is better than the condition of unrest under their rulers ( Isaiah 57:1 ). Shall enter.. shall rest] RV 'entereth.. rest.' 3, 5. Sons , etc.] i.e. descendants, perpet...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The wicked are like the troubled sea... — The promise of healing is, however, not unconditional. The acceptance of peace requires calmness; but for the wicked, whose thoughts are restlessly seethin...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9-12 ; Isaiah 57:1-21 ; Isaiah 58:1-14 ; Isaiah 59:1-21 IT was inevitable, as soon as their city was again fairly in sight, th...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  No Peace to the Wicked Isaiah 57:1-21 A terrible portrayal is given here of the idolatries and impurities into which the Chosen People had fallen. These scenes under “the oaks” (r.v.) and in th...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Because of the failure of these blind watchmen and drunken leaders, righteous men perish, while none lay it to heart. Moreover, the people have yielded to the evil influences of such leaders; "sons o...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These words are as awful, as the foregoing were comfortable. But every day's experience showeth, that the one is as sure as the other. When God's judgments and chastisements do not soften, they harde...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest ,.... Disturbed by winds, storms, and hurricanes, when its waves rise, rage, and tumble about, and beat against the shore and sand, thre...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Ver. 20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea. ] Whose surges are not more lofty than muddy...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I create I will, by my almighty power, in a wonderful manner produce; the fruit of the lips Praise and thanksgiving, termed the fruit of the lips, Hosea 14:2 ; Hebrews 13:15 . God creates this...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Divine Forbearance and Mercy. B. C. 706.       17 For the iniquity of his covetousness w...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their minds are restless, being perpetually hurried and tormented with their own lusts and passions, and with the horror of their guilt, and the dread of the Divine vengeance due unto them, and ready...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Yahweh Will Make A Way Back To Himself And Will Restore Those Whom He Chooses To Himself In Spite of Their Undeserving and Unresponsiveness ( Isaiah 57:14-21 ). They must remember that in spite of...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE PEACE OF GOD Isaiah 57:19-20 . Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, &c. There was a time when man’s religion was the religion of spontaneous innocence: the only...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 57:15-21 I. A contrite heart does not merely mean a broken heart; it means more. It means literally a heart crushed, a heart ground to powder. You can have no stronger word. It was this hea...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  A lament for the death of the righteous many of them put to death by persecution. Isaiah 57:1-2 . The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none cons...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 57:1 . The righteous perisheth. This was written as a tribute, it would seem, to the memory of king Hezekiah, who was recently called from an earthly to a heavenly crown. He entered into pe...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity. A royal manifesto A royal manifesto win His character as Sovereign, God brings before us, and before His loyal subjects in every...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 57:1 , Isaiah 57:2 THE EARLY DEATH OF RIGHTEOUS MEN ACCOUNTED FOR . The Hebrews were given to expect that long life should, as a general rule, accompan...

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• Isaiah 57:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jehovah Grants Salvation and Peace to the Repentant. What the Lord had indicated at the end of the fast paragraph He now elaborates upon.

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 3:11 ; Job 15:20-24 ; Job 18:5-14 ; Job 20:11-29 ; Jude 1:12 ; Proverbs 4:16 ; Proverbs 4:17 ; Psalms 73:18-20

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• Isaiah 57:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Cast up — Their minds are restless, being perpetually hurried with their own lusts and passions, and with guilt, and the dread of the divine vengeance.

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