Isaiah 59:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Your iniquities

Jeremiah 5:25

Hid

Micah 3:4

General references

Bible References

Your iniquities

This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look! It's because of your sins that you were sold, and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away.

The LORD saw it and became jealous, provoked by his sons and daughters.

Israel has sinned. They broke my covenant that I commanded them by taking some of the things that had been turned over to destruction. They have stolen, have been deceitful, and have stored what they stole among their own belongings.

The LORD is far away from the wicked, but he hears the prayers of the righteous.

Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.

Hid

Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will.

When that happens, my anger will burn against them, because they will have abandoned me. I'll hide my face from them, they will be consumed, and many evils and distresses will find them. When this happens, they will say, "These troubles have happened to us because God isn't among us.'

So he said: "Let me hide my face from them. I will observe what their end will be, because they are a perverted generation, children within whom there is no loyalty.

The nations will also learn that because of Israel's sin the house of Israel went into captivity, since they were unfaithful in their behavior toward me. As a result, I hid my presence from them, turned them over to the control of their enemies, and they died by violence.

"Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not listen to them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they were so wicked in what they were doing."

General references

They cried out for deliverance, but there was no one to deliver; they cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

"Who handed Jacob over to looters, and Israel to robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? After all, they weren't willing to walk in his ways, and they wouldn't obey his instruction,

Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.