⁵ The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶ Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

²² There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.