Isa 57:20-21 | JFB | STEP | 20. when it cannot rest —rather, " for it can have no rest" ( ). English Version represents the sea as occasionally agitated; but the Hebrew expresses that it can never be at rest.

Isaiah 57:20-21

20. when it cannot rest—rather, "for it can have no rest" (Job 15:20, &c.; Pr 4:16, 17). English Version represents the sea as occasionally agitated; but the Hebrew expresses that it can never be at rest.

21. (Isa 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" (Isa 11:1-3), warning the impenitent that, while they continue so, they can have no peace.