Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, but no one considers it, 1 and the people of covenant faithfulness are gathered away, but no one understands 1 that the righteous is gathered away from the evil. 1
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2He enters into peace; 1 they rest in their beds, those who walk in their uprightness. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one from Jeroboam's family who will go into a grave, because only in him, out of Jeroboam's house, was anything good found in the sight of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:33Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him on the hill of the tombs of the descendants of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 35:24So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in his extra chariot. They took him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Isaiah 42:25Therefore he poured out on them his fierce anger and the violence of war, 1 Its flames encircled them, yet they did not understand; 1 it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 57:11“Whom are you worried about? Whom do you fear so much that has caused you to act so deceitfully, 1 so much that you would not remember me or think about me? 1 Because I was silent for so long, you are no longer afraid of me. 1
Malachi 2:2“If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it on your heart to give honor to my name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them, because you are not laying my command on your heart.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:1
The prophet, in this chapter, makes his observations, I. Upon the deaths of good men, comforting those that were taken away in their integrity and reproving those that did not make a due improvement of such providences, ver. 1, 2 . II. Upon the gross idolatries and spiritual whoredoms which the Jews were guilty of, and the destroying judgments they were thereby bringing upon themselves, ver. 3-12 . III. Upon the gracious returns of God to his people to put an end to their captivity and re-establish their… Read the whole commentary →