Passage

Waves and wandering stars

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹³wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:13World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Those who feast with the readers are compared to wild sea waves and wandering stars.

To understand

The waves foam out their own shame, and darkness is reserved for the stars. Other images include waterless clouds and fruitless trees uprooted after being twice dead.

A question

What is said to be reserved for the wandering stars?