Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:1-2

The Sufferings Of The Righteous Under Injustice (Isaiah 57:1-2 ). Isaiah 57:1-2 ‘The righteous man perishes, And no man lays it to heart, And the men of covenant love (chesed) are taken away, None considering that the righteous is taken away from evil (‘from the face of evil’). He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, Each one who walks in his uprightness.’ The sign of the total failure of the leadership of God’s supposed people is that the very people whom they should have been... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:1-2

Isaiah 56:9 to Isaiah 57:2 . A Denunciation of the Rulers of the Community.— This oracle seems not to be connected with the preceding, though, it arises out of the same circumstances.Yahweh bids the beasts of prey ( cf. Jeremiah 12:9), hostile nations, ravage the flock, since the watchdogs are not alert, but crouched in the slumber of gluttons. Vividly then one of the rulers is introduced, inviting his fellows to a drunken orgy ( cf. Amos 6:6), and gloating over a like prospect for the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:1

The righteous; just and holy men, who are the pillars of the place and state in which they live; yea, as the Jews call them, the pillars of the world. No man; few or none of the people. So he showeth that the corruption was general, in the people no less than in the priests. Layeth it to heart; is duly affected with this severe stroke and sad sign of God’s displeasure. Merciful; or, godly; the same whom he now called righteous, whose duty and practice it is to exercise both mercy or kindness,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:2

He shall enter into peace; this just and merciful man shall enter into a state of peace and rest, where he shall be out of the reach of the approaching miseries. Or, He shall go (to wit, to his fathers, as it is fully expressed, Genesis 15:15; or, he shall die; going being put for dying, as 1 Chronicles 17:11, compared with 2 Samuel 7:12; Job 10:21; Job 14:20; Luke 22:22, and elsewhere) in peace. They; just men. Here is a sudden change of the number, which is very frequent in the prophets. In... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-2

THE DEATH OF THE GOOD(Funeral Sermon.)Isaiah 57:1-2. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, &c.I. Though God’s people are the excellent of the earth, yet they must die. Though “righteous” and “merciful,” and on these accounts so precious in God’s eyes, and so useful in His cause, they are not exempted from that sentence of death which is passed upon all men. Were we consulted concerning many of them, we should entreat that they might be spared, and we see not how the cause... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

Chapter 57The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, and none is considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come ( Isaiah 57:1 ).There are many who see this verse as a description of what happens at the rapture of the church. As the merciful are taken away and no man considering the fact that they have been taken away from the evil that is to come, from the period of the Great Tribulation that is coming.He shall enter into peace:... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 57:1-21

Isaiah 57:1 . The righteous perisheth. This was written as a tribute, it would seem, to the memory of king Hezekiah, who was recently called from an earthly to a heavenly crown. He entered into peace, beyond the reach of all the calamities impending over his country. The nation at large did not know their loss, and therefore sorrowed not as the prophet would have them do. Isaiah 57:4 . Against whom do ye sport yourselves? The idolaters, finding the young king Manasseh decidedly in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:1-2

Isaiah 57:1-2The righteous perishethThe righteous perishingIn view of this prevailing demoralization and worldliness (Isaiah 56:9-12), the righteous one succumbs to the grinding weight of external and internal sufferings: he “perishes,” dies before his time (Ecclesiastes 7:15), from the midst of his contemporaries, disappearing from this life (Psalms 12:1; Micah 7:2), and no man lays it to heart, i.no one considers the Divine accusation and threatening implied in this early death. (F.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:2

Isaiah 57:2He shall enter into peaceThe believer in life, death, and eternityTaking them together, the words of the text will lead us to contemplate the child of God--I.IN THE STRENGTH AND VIGOUR OF LIFE. II. IN THE SUFFERING AND THE ARTICLE OF DEATH. III. IN THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISSOLUTION, AS THEY AFFECT BOTH BODY AND SOUL. (J. Haslegrave, M. A.)A glimmering of New Testament consolationHere is a glimmering of the consolation in the New Testament, that the death of the righteous man is better... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:1

Isa 57:1 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]. Ver. 1. The righteous perisheth. ] So the world deemeth, but not rightly, for "the righteous hath hope in his death," when "the wicked dying is driven away in his wickedness" Pro 14:32 - by "him that had the power of death, even the devil" Heb 2:14 - having been "through fear of death all their lifetime subject to... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:1-2

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:1-2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-2

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 57:1-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:1-2

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:1

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