No rest for the wicked

"No rest for the wicked", or "No peace for the wicked", is a phrase originating from the Book of Isaiah verses 48:22 and 57:20-21.

• Book of Isaiah 48:22 " 'There is no peace,' says the Lord, 'for the wicked.' "
• Book of Isaiah 57:20 "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt."
• Book of Isaiah 57:21 "There is no peace," says my God, "to the wicked."

The Hebrew word for peace is shalom and means "peace; completeness; welfare or health." The word for wicked is rasha and means "wicked, ungodly; guilty." Rasha occurs only in Hebrew and late Aramaic. The narrow meaning of rasha lies in the concept of "wrongdoing" or "being in the wrong." It is a legal term. Rasha also denotes the category of people who have done wrong, are still living in sin, and are intent on continuing with wrongdoing. This is the more general meaning of the word. The Septuagint has three translations of rasha: asebes ("godless; impious"); hamartolos ("sinner; sinful"), and anomos ("lawless").^[1]

The phrase may also refer to:

In music:

• No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album), an album by Ozzy Osbourne
• No Rest for the Wicked (New Model Army album), an album by New Model Army
• No Rest for the Wicked (Helix album), an album by the band Helix
• "No Rest for the Wicked" (Godsmack song), a song by Godsmack on their album IV
• "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked", a 2008 song by Cage the Elephant
• "No Rest for the Wicked", a song by Cypress Hill on their album III: Temples of Boom
• "No Rest for the Wicked", a song by NoMeansNo on their album Mama
• "No Rest for the Wicked", a song by Project: Deadman on their album Project: Deadman Self Inflicted
• "No Peace for the Wicked", a song by Thompson Twins on their album Into the Gap
• "No Rest 4 Da Wicked", a song by (hed) p.e.
• "No Rest for the Wicked", a song by Saxon on their album Call to Arms.

In other uses:

• No Rest for the Wicked (webcomic), a webcomic by Andrea L. Peterson
• "No Rest for the Wicked" (Supernatural), an episode of the television series Supernatural
• No Rest for the Wicked, an achievement in the game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
• No Rest for the Wicked is also a 80 level daily quest in the game World of Warcraft available for both Horde and Alliance.
• No rest for the wicked is said by Wolfe Macfarlane in the short story The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
• No Rest for the Wicked, title of a Jane Serrano mystery by Elizabeth C. Main
• No Rest for the Wicked, title of a paranormal romance by Kresley Cole
• No Rest for the Wicked is a sentence being said twice in the series Dexter (TV series) referring to the character Dexter himself.
• No Rest for the Wicked is cited by Inuyasha, in his namesake anime, likely referring to his need to keep pace with the wicked Naraku

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1. ^ Vine, W.E. (1996). Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary. Nashville, TN, USA: Thomas Nelson, Inc.. pp. 173–174, 287–288. ISBN 0-7852-1160-8.