Isaiah 57:20 - Exposition

The wicked are like the troubled sea . A striking metaphor, but one which occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament, and once only in the New ( Jude 1:13 ). The sea's restless action well expresses the unquiet of the wicked; and the mud and mire that it casts up resembles their evil thoughts and evil deeds. "There is no peace" for such persons, either bodily or spiritual, either in this world or the world to come.