Isaiah 57:1

Overview - Isaiah 57
The blessed death of the righteous.
God reproves the Jews for their whorish idolatry.
13 He gives promises of mercy to the penitent.
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Isaiah 57:1  (King James Version)
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.
 


righteous
2 Chronicles 32:33 ; 35:24

no man
11 ; 42:25 47:7 Malachi 2:2

merciful men
Hebrew men of kindness, or godliness.
Psalms 12:1 ; Micah 7:2

the righteous
1 Kings 14:13 ; 2 Kings 22:20 ; 2 Chronicles 34:28

the evil to come
or, that which is evil.