Isaiah 57:2
He entereth into peace, they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' art; and they made a very great burning for him.
Ecclesiastes 12:7And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isaiah 26:7The way of the just is straight; Thou, Most Upright, makest plain the path of the just.
Ezekiel 32:25They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit; they are put in the midst of them that are slain.
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 →