--- title: "Isaiah 57 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Isaiah 57 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/57" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/57)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/57)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/57) Audio 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*.** 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, *each one* walking *in* his uprightness.** 3 ¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, *and* draw out the tongue? *are* ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?* 6 Among the smooth *stones* of the stream *is* thy portion; they, they *are* thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? 7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered *thyself to another* than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee *a covenant* with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest *it*.** 9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase *thyself even* unto hell.* 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; *yet* saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.* 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid *it* to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. 13 ¶ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take *them:* but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name *is* Holy; I dwell in the high and holy *place*, with him also *that is* of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls *which* I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.* 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to *him that is* far off, and to *him that is* near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked *are* like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 *There is* no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. [Isaiah 56](/study/isaiah/56) [Isaiah 58](/study/isaiah/58) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Isa 57:1](/kjv/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](/kjv/-pro/14/32) - by "him that had the power of death, even the devil"[Heb 2:14](/kjv/-heb/2/14) - having been "through fear of death all their lifetime subject to bondage." The Lacedaemonians all the time of their life adored death. The righteous can defy death, with Paul, and sing, Death, where is thy sting? hell, where is thy victory? He is not "killed with death," as Jezebel’s children were;[Rev 2:23](/kjv/-rev/2/23) but dieth in peace, though he die in battle, as Josiah did, of whom some interpret this text. **** **And no man layeth it to heart.** ] Heb., Upon his heart, that it may sink and soak into it, so as to be soundly sensible of God’s holy hand and end in such a providence. See [Isaiah 5:12](/kjv/isaiah/5/12) . There is a woe to oscitancy and stupidity of this kind. **** **And merciful men.** ] Heb, Men of piety or pity, such as all righteous persons are. They have received mercy, and they can show it;[Col 3:12](/kjv/-col/3/12) they have steeped their thoughts in the mercies of God, which have dyed theirs as the dye fat doth the cloth. **** **Are taken away.** ] Heb., Gathered, as grain is into the garner, or fruit into the storehouse; so they into Abraham’s bosom. As men gather flowers, and candy them, and preserve them by them, so doth God his pious ones. **** **No man considering.** ][None of those debauched ones Isa 56:12](/kjv/-none-of-those-debauched-ones-isa/56/12) to be sure of. These are glad to be rid of the righteous, as the Sodomites were of righteous Lot; as the heathen persecutors were of the martyrs, whom they counted καθαρματα , the "sweepings of the world, and the offscourings of all things."[1Co 4:13](/kjv/-1co/4/13) **** **That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.** ] As was Methuselah a year before the flood; Jeroboam’s best son, before the downfall of his father’s family;[1Ki 14:12-13](/kjv/-1ki/14/12-13) Josiah before the captivity and first destruction of Jerusalem;[2Ki 22:20](/kjv/-2ki/22/20) James before the second;[Act 12:2](/kjv/-act/12/2) Augustine a little before the sack of his city Hippo, by the Vandals. *Felix Nepotianus qui haec non vidit,* saith Jerome. Stilico said, that when Ambrose was dead great changes would follow; and it happened accordingly. Luther was taken away in peace, *a* a little before the calamity of Germany, which he foretold, for contempt of the gospel. Pareus died a little before Heidelberg was taken, *futuro malo substractus.* Mr Brightman was buried a day or two before the pursuivant was sent for him. God had housed him, as he had Lot before the storm; hid him, as he had done Moses in the hole of the rock, till the tempest was blown over; dealt by him, as once by Daniel,[Dan 12:13](/kjv/-dan/12/13) who was bid to go away and rest before those great clashings and confusions should come, which had been foreshown to him. Howbeit this is not generally so; for Jeremiah lived to see the first destruction of Jerusalem, John the Evangelist the last. Mr Dod and many other holy men outlived our recent unhappy wars, and deeply shared in them. But usually God taketh away his most eminent servants from the evil to come. As when there is a fire in a house or town men carry out their jewels; ωκυμοροι οι θεοφιλεις , saith an ancient, *b* the best die first commonly. The comfort is, that though as grapes they be gathered before they are ripe, and as lambs, slain before they be grown, yet this benefit they have, that they are freed from the violence of the winepress that others fall into, and they escape many storms that others live to taste of. *a* Calvin, *in hunc locum,* *b* Dion., *Prus. 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