no rest for the wicked
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From the Book of Isaiah verses 48:22 and 57:20-21, originally Hebrew. First attested in English in 1535, in Coverdale Bible of Miles Coverdale.[1] Quoted in biblical sense for centuries, humorous secular sense popularized from 1930s, particularly due to use as title of popular Little Orphan Annie strip by Harold Gray in 1933.[1] According to rabbinical tradition, the word “wicked” refers only to king Nebuchadnezzar II and his descendants.[2]
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