Isaiah 59:2
Your sinful acts, however, have separated you from your God, 1 and your sins have made him hide his face from you and from hearing you. 1
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1Look, Yahweh's hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor his ear so dull, that it cannot hear. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:19Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, 1 because his sons and his daughters provoked him so. 1
1 Samuel 4:3When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh here from Shiloh, that it may be here with us, that it might keep us safe from the hands of our enemies.”
Isaiah 1:15So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; 1 even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; 1 your hands are full of blood. 1
Isaiah 57:17Because of the sin of his violent gain, I was angry, and I punished him; I hid my face and was angry, 1 but he went backward in the way of his heart. 1
Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities kept these things from happening. Your sins have stopped good from coming to you. 1
Ezekiel 39:24I did to them according to their uncleanness and their sins, when I hid my face from them.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9
The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →