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Isaiah 57 · a question people ask

"The righteous perish" (57:1). What does the chapter say happens to them?

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The verse says: "The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil" (57:1) (tap taken away). The next verse says, "He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness" (57:2) (tap peace). The chapter doesn't say what the evil is, and it doesn't set out what the dead know or do; these notes build no teaching about life after death on these two verses. Other passages speak of the dead in their own words, among them Psalm 88 and Ecclesiastes 9, and the notes on those chapters look at them.

The verses

“The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.”
Isaiah 57:1-2 · World English Bible

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Isaiah 57: Peace to the far and the near

In Hebrew peace comes four times in Isaiah 57, more than in any other chapter of the book: the righteous man "enters into peace" (57:2), the LORD says "Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near" (57:19), and the chapter ends "There is no peace" … "for the wicked" (57:21). And the one "who inhabits eternity" dwells "with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit" (57:15).

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