Jude 1:13

KJV

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

— Jude 1:13, King James Version
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Jude 1:13, King James Version.

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Study Note

'Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever' — Jude's catalogue of apostasy employs natural imagery of violent disorder (Jude 1:12–13) drawn from Isaiah 57:20 ('the wicked are like the tossing sea') and 1 Enoch 18:14–16 (wandering stars as fallen angels). The 'foam of shame' (epaphrizonta tas heautōn aischynas) evokes the spectacle of a shoreline covered in detritus — public display of what the false teachers try to conceal is the prophetic irony. 'Wandering stars' in Second Temple Jewish cosmology referred to planets that followed irregular paths, associated with fallen angelic beings whose ordained courses had been abandoned — a fitting image for teachers who have deviated from their proper calling. The image of 'gloom of utter darkness reserved forever' draws on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition of the netherworld as dark prison (1 Enoch 21; 2 Peter 2:17), framing the false teachers' destiny as cosmically ordained.

תרגומים נוספים

ASV

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

YLT

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

BBE

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

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