Isaiah 57:21
19 bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- KJV
- There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
- WEB
- “There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
- ASV
- There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
- DARBY
- There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
- BLB
- “There is no peace,” says my God, “For the wicked.”
- ÅB
- Det er ingen fred for de ugudelige, sier min Gud.
[^1]: som de drev avgudsdyrkelse med.
[^2]: 5MO 6, 9; 11, 20.
[^3]: avgudene.
[^4]: lov og pris; HEB 13, 15. JES 52, 7. EFE 2, 17. - OTB
- "Min Gud erklærer, 'Det er ingen fred for de ugudelige.'"
- B1930
- Det er ingen fred for de ugudelige, sier min Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 48:22
“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
Read in contextIsaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Read in context2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
Read in contextIsaiah 59:8
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
Read in contextRomans 3:16–17
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
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