Isaiah 57:2
He shall come [to his fathers] in peace: they shall repose in their resting-place, every one that walketh in his uprightness.
Leeser Tanakh
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 ye draw near hither, 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 dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the couch which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices mixed by the apothecary's art; and they made for him a burning uncommonly great.
Ecclesiastes 12:7When the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.—
Isaiah 26:7The path of the just is straight: thou, most upright, dost ever level the road of the just.
Ezekiel 32:25In the midst of the slain have they set a couch for her with all her multitude; all round about are her graves; all of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because their terror was once spread in the land of the living; and they have borne their confusion with those that go down to the pit: in the midst of the slain was she placed.
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 →