Isaiah Chapter 57 verse 2 Holy Bible
He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
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They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
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He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each one] that hath walked in his uprightness.
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He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
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He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each' is going straightforward.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - He shall enter into peace. Not merely into "stillness" or "silence" (Psalm 115:17), but into "peace," or, as the word might be rendered (Cheyne), "a state of peace." There is, no doubt, primarily, "a contrast to the awful troubles which the survivors will have to encounter" (Hengstenberg); but perhaps this contrast is not all that is meant. The "peace" is positive rather than negative, or it would scarcely be a consolation to any one. They shall rest in their beds; or, upon their beds. This expression seems to imply a consciousness of rest, and so a certain enjoyment of it. Each one walking in his uprightness; rather, whosoever hath walked uprightly, or in a straight path (see Proverbs 4:25-27). The phrase is an equivalent for "the righteous" of ver. 1, and refers to the life on earth of those who have gone down into silence, not to their life after they have reached the silent shore. Of that life the evangelical prophet is not commissioned to give us any information.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) He shall enter into peace . . .--Notice- able as presenting the brighter side of the dim thoughts of Israel as to the life behind the veil, and so far contrasted with Hezekiah's shrinking fear. (Comp. Job 3:17.) For the righteous there was peace in death as in life. For the wicked there was peace in neither (Isaiah 57:21).They shall rest in their beds.--The "bed" is obviously the grave, the thought following naturally on that of death being as the sleep "after life's fitful fever." (Ezekiel 32:25.)Each one walking in his uprightness.--Better, every one who has walked straight before him--has taken, i.e., the straight path of duty (Isaiah 30:21.)
