Isaiah 57 · Verse 21

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 57:21, King James Version

Isaiah 57:21 in other translations

BSB“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
WEB“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
ASVThere is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
YLTThere is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!
DARBYThere is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
BBEThere is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
WebsterThere is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

What does Isaiah 57:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
21. (Is 48:22; 2Ki 9:22). my God--The prophet, having God as his God, speaks in the person of Israel, prophetically regarded as having now appropriated God and His "peace" (Is 11:1-3), warning the impenitent that, while they continue so, they can have no peace.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 21 There is no peace, saith my God - For אלהי Elohai, twenty-two MSS. (five ancient) of Kennicott's, thirty of De Rossi's, and one ancient of my own, read יהוה Yehovah; the Vulgate, Septuagint, Alex., and Arabic, and three MSS. have both. This verse has reference to the nineteenth. The perseveringly wicked and impenitent are excluded from all share in that peace above mentioned, that reconcilement and pardon which is promised to the penitent only. The forty-eighth chapter ends with the same declaration, to express the exclusion of the unbelievers and impenitent from the benefit of the foregoing promises. - L.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 57:13-21

The idols and their worshippers shall come to nothing; but those who trust in God's grace, shall be brought to the joys of heaven. With the Lord there is neither beginning of days, nor end of life, nor change of time. His name is holy, and all must know him as a holy God. He will have tender regard to those who bring their mind to their condition, and dread his wrath. He will make his abode with those whose hearts…

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Isaiah 57:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֵ֣ין'einnotH369
שָׁל֔וֹםsha.LompeaceH7965
אָמַ֥ר'a.Marhe saysH559
אֱלֹהַ֖י'e.lo.HaiGod myH430
לָרְשָׁעִֽים\׃\ \סla.re.sha.'Im[belongs] to <the> wicked [people]H7563

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 57:21

  • Isaiah 48:22

    There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

  • Isaiah 3:11

    Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • 2 Kings 9:22

    And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

  • Isaiah 59:8

    The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • Romans 3:16-17

    Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:11; 48:22; 2Ki 9:22; Ro 3:16,17

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Context

  • Isaiah 57:20

    But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Isaiah 57:21

    There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

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Isaiah 57:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No hay paz, dijo mi Dios, para los impíos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il n’y a pas de paix, dit mon Dieu, pour les méchants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Kein Friede den Gesetzlosen! spricht mein Gott. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Non est pax impiis, dicit Dominus Deus.