Jude 1:13 (KJV)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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

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

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "raging", "waves", "foaming", "shame", "wandering", "stars", and "reserved". 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 your feasts of..." into verse 14's "And Enoch also the seventh from Adam...", 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.