OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 57:20

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

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Verse 20. Dirt. Lit. “treading,” conculcationem. Bible.—The works of the wicked are fruitless. They have no content. Calmet.

Non enim gazæ neque consularis

Summovet lictor miseros tumultus,

Mentis et curas laqueata circum,

Tecta volantes. Hor. ii. ode 16.

—The obstinate sinner can receive no pardon. Worthington.

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