Isaias 57:20
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Impii autem quasi mare fervens, quod quiescere non potest, et redundant fluctus ejus in conculcationem et lutum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ δὲ ἄδικοι κλυδωνισθήσονται καὶ ἀναπαύσασθαι οὐ δυνήσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָרְשָׁעִ֖ים כַּיָּ֣ם נִגְרָ֑שׁ כִּ֤י הַשְׁקֵט֙ לֹ֣א יוּכָ֔ל וַיִּגְרְשׁ֥וּ מֵימָ֖יו רֶ֥פֶשׁ וָטִֽיט
Haydock's commentary
Dirt. Literally, "treading," conculcationem. (Haydock)
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.
(Horace, ii. ode 16.)
The obstinate sinner can receive no pardon. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Peter of Alexandria The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras, Canon IV
To those who are altogether reprobate, and unrepentant, who possess the Ethiopian’s unchanging skin, and the leopard’s spots, it shall be said, as it was spoken to another fig-tree, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever; and it presently withered away.” For in them is fulfilled what was spoken by the Preacher: “That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” For unless that which is crooked shall first be made straight, it is impossible for it to be adorned; and unless that which is wanting shall first be made up, it cannot be numbered. …