Jude 1:13 (DRB)

Passage

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Jude 1:14 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "raging", "waves", "foaming", "confusion", "wandering", "stars", and "storm". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "darkness" and "raging", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "These are spots in their banquets feasting..." into verse 14's "Now of these Enoch also the seventh...", so "darkness" and "raging" belong inside that flow. In Jude context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "darkness" and "raging" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.