Isaiah 57:2
Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulcher, which he had made for himself in the City of David. And they placed him upon his bed, full of the aromatics and ointments of courtesans, which were composed with the skill of the perfumers. And they burned these over him with very great ostentation.
Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.
Isaiah 26:7The path of the just is upright; the difficult path of the just is right to walk in.
Ezekiel 32:25They have appointed him a place to lie among all his people, in the midst of the slain. Their graves are all around him. All these are uncircumcised and were slain by the sword. For they spread their terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their disgrace, with those who descend into the pit. They have been stationed in the midst of the slain.
Luke 1:6Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.
Luke 7:50Then he said to the woman: “Your faith has brought you salvation. Go in peace.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:2-3
Death of the Righteous. ( b. c. 706.) 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had condemned the watchmen for their ignorance and sottishness; here he shows the general stupidity and senselessness of the people likewise. No wonder they were… Read the whole commentary →