Isaiah 57:1-2

Israel's Futile Idolatry

¹ The righteous man perishes,
and no one lays it to heart;
_r devout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
² _s he enters into peace;
they rest _t in their beds
who walk in their uprightness.

1. Cross References
   Psalms 12:1
   Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 2:29
   Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 16:14
   They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
   Ezekiel 32:25
   They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.