Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away… In view of this prevailing demoralization and worldliness (Isaiah 56:9-12), the righteous one succumbs to the grinding weight of external and internal sufferings: he "perishes," dies before his time (Ecclesiastes 7:15), from the midst of his contemporaries, disappearing from this life (Psalm 12:1; Micah 7:2), and no man lays it to heart, i.e. no one considers the Divine accusation and threatening implied in this early death. (F. Delitzsch, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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