Isaiah 57:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Israel’s Futile Idolatry

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

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