Isaiah 57:2
He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each one] that hath walked in his uprightness.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
In Context
3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.
Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
Isaiah 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.
Ezekiel 32:25They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain, with all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living; and they have borne their confusion with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.
Luke 1:6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Luke 7:50And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee; 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 →