Isaiah 48:22

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
There is no shalom, says the LORD, to the wicked.

English Standard Version
"There is no peace," says the Lord , "for the wicked."

New American Standard Bible
"There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

New Century Version
"There is no peace for evil people," says the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

World English Bible
There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.

Geneva Bible (1587)
There is no peace, sayeth the Lorde, vnto the wicked.

Legacy Standard Bible
"There is no peace for the wicked," says Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Contemporary English Version
But the Lord has promised that none who are evil will live in peace."

Complete Jewish Bible
But there is no peace, says Adonai , for the wicked.

Darby Translation
There is no peace, saith Jehovah, unto the wicked.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord also said, "There is no peace for evil people."

George Lamsa Translation
There is no peace to the wicked, says the LORD.

Good News Translation
"There is no safety for sinners," says the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

Literal Translation
There is no peace, says Jehovah, to the wicked.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saieth the LORDE.

American Standard Version
There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.

Bible in Basic English
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
There is no peace, saith the LORD concerning the wicked.

King James Version (1611)
There is no peace, saith the Lord, vnto the wicked.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saith the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is no joy, saith the Lord, to the ungodly.

English Revised Version
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Pees is not to wickid men, seith the Lord.

Update Bible Version
There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.

Webster's Bible Translation
[There is] no peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.

New English Translation
There will be no prosperity for the wicked," says the Lord .

New King James Version
"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

New Living Translation
"But there is no peace for the wicked," says the Lord .

New Life Bible
"There is no peace for the sinful," says the Lord.

New Revised Standard
"There is no peace," says the Lord , "for the wicked."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Young's Literal Translation
There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!

THE MESSAGE
"There is no peace," says God , "for the wicked."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. ¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. ¹⁸ O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: ¹⁹ Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. ²⁰ Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. ²¹ And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. ²² There is no peace, saith the Lord , unto the wicked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 57:21, Job 15:20-24, Luke 19:42, Romans 3:17

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:3 - shall be 1 Kings 2:6 - in 2 Kings 9:18 - What hast thou to do Psalms 50:16 - wicked Isaiah 3:11 - Woe Isaiah 43:19 - rivers Isaiah 59:8 - whosoever Ezekiel 13:16 - and there Luke 1:79 - to guide Luke 11:24 - seeking Romans 2:10 - and peace Philippians 4:7 - the peace

Cross-References

Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Genesis 33:19
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 34:28
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

Genesis 48:14
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Genesis 48:18
And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

Deuteronomy 21:17
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Judges 11:23
So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

1 Chronicles 5:2
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

Ezekiel 47:13
Thus saith the Lord God ; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked,.... To Nebuchadnezzar and his seed, says Jarchi; to the Babylonians, say Aben Ezra and Kimchi; who enjoyed no more peace and prosperity, being conquered by Cyrus, and their monarchy dissolved, and put an end to: but rather this is to be understood of the wicked among the Jews; which sense Aben Ezra mentions, though he prefers the former; and either those are meant, who refused to go out of Babylon, and the land of Chaldea, when they might, but continued among an idolatrous people, and therefore are threatened with want of peace and prosperity; or rather the Jews in the times of Christ and his apostles, who disbelieved the Messiah, despised his Gospel, and rejected his ordinances; the consequence of which was, they had no peace, no outward prosperity, but all the reverse; their nation, city, and temple, were destroyed, and they carried captive, and scattered up and down in the world; nor any inward spiritual peace, nor eternal happiness; for blaspheming and contradicting the word of the Gospel, and putting it away from them, they judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life; and the apostles were bid to turn from them to the Gentiles, and preach the Gospel to them; hence the next chapter begins,

listen, O isles, unto me, c. see Luke 19:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked - This verse contains a sentiment whose truth no one can doubt. To the transgressor of the laws of God there can be no permanent peace, enjoyment, or prosperity. The word peace is used in the Scriptures in all these senses (see the note at Isaiah 48:18). There may be the appearance of joy, and there may be temporary prosperity. But there is no abiding, substantial, permanent happiness, such as is enjoyed by those who fear and love God. This sentiment occurs not unfrequently in Isaiah. It is repeated in Isaiah 57:21; and in Isaiah 57:20, he says that ‘the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.’ Of the truth of the declaration here there can be no doubt; but it is not perfectly apparent why it is introduced here. It is probably a part of the song with which they would celebrate their return; and it may have been used for one of the following reasons:

1. As a general maxim, expressed in view of the joy which they had in their return to their own land. They had elevated peace and triumph and joy. This was produced by the fact that they had evidence that they were the objects of the divine favor and protection. How natural was it in view of these blessings to say, that the wicked had no such comfort, and in general, that there was no peace to them of any kind, or from any quarter. Or,

2. It may have been uttered in view of the fact that many of their countrymen may have chosen to remain in Babylon when they returned to their own land. They probably formed connections there, amassed wealth, and refused to attend those who returned to Judea to rebuild the temple. And the meaning may be, that they, amidst all the wealth which they might have gained, and amidst the idolatries which prevailed in Babylon, could never enjoy the peace which they now had in their return to the land of their fathers.

Whatever was the reason why it was used here, it contains a most important truth which demands the attention of all people. The wicked, as a matter of sober truth and verity, have no permanent and substantial peace and joy. They have none:

1. In the act of wickedness. Sin may be attended with the gratifications of bad passions, but in the act of sinning, as such, there can be no substantial happiness.

2. They have no solid, substantial, elevated peace in the business or the pleasures of life. This world can furnish no such joys as are derived from the hope of a life to come. Pleasures ‘pall upon the sense,’ riches take wings; disappointment comes; and the highest earthly and sensual pleasure leaves a sad sense of want - a feeling that there is something in the capacities and needs of the undying mind which has not been filled.

3. They have no peace of conscience; no deep and abiding conviction that they are right. They are often troubled; and there is nothing which this world can furnish which will give peace to a bosom that is agitated with a sense of the guilt of sin.

4. They have no peace on a deathbed. There may be stupidity, callousness, insensibility, freedom from much pain or alarm. But that is not peace, anymore than sterility is fruitfulness; or than death is life; or than the frost of winter is the verdure of spring; or than a desert is a fruitful field.

5. There is often in these circumstances the reverse of peace. There is not only no positive peace, but there is the opposite. There is often disappointment, care, anxiety, distress, deep alarm, and the awful apprehension of eternal wrath. There is no situation in life or death, where the sinner can certainly calculate on peace, or where he will be sure to find it. There is every probability that his mind will be often filled with alarm, and that his deathbed will be one of despair.

6. There is no peace to the wicked beyond the grave. “A sinner can have no peace at the judgment bar of God; he can have no peace in hell.” In all the future world there is no place where he can find repose; and whatever this life may be, even if it be a life of prosperity and external comfort, yet to him there will be no prosperity in the future world, and no external or internal peace there.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 48:22. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. — See below, Clarke's note on "Isaiah 57:21". As the destruction of Babylon was determined, God commands his people to hasten out of it; for, saith the Lord, there is no peace (prosperity) to the wicked; ουκ εστι χαιρειν τοις ασεβεσιν, λεγει Κυριος. - Sept. "There is no rejoicing or prosperity to the wicked saith the Lord." Their is not pese to unrytous men seith the Lord.-Old MS. Bible.