Jude 1:13
11 Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
15 to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- KJV
- Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- WEB
- wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
- ASV
- Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.
- DARBY
- raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.
- BLB
- wild waves of the sea, foaming out of their shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept unto the age.
- ÅB
- ville havsbårer som utskummer sin egen skam; villfarende stjerner, for hvem mørkets natt er rede til evig tid.
- OTB
- Ville bølger av havet, som skummer opp sin skam; vandrende stjerner, for hvem det svarteste mørke er reservert for alltid.
- B1930
- ville havsbårer som utskummer sin egen skam; villfarende stjerner, for hvem mørkets natt er rede til evig tid.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 2:17
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
Read in contextPsalms 65:7
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
Read in contextRevelation 20:10
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:13
while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Read in contextRevelation 14:10–11
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Read in contextPsalms 93:3–4
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
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