Isaiah 59:2

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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

Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.

Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

Israel has sinned and {transgressed my covenant} that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things; they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put [them] among their belongings.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but the prayers of the righteous he will hear.

Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.

Hid

I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.

And {my anger shall flare up against them} on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, '[Is it] not because our God is not in our midst [that] these disasters have found us?'

So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what [will be] their end, for they [are] a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.

and the nations will know that because of their guilt the house of Israel went into exile, {because} they acted unfaithfully against me, and I hid my face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.

General references

They cried out but there was no rescuer, [even] to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey} his law.

Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.

And he was not able to do any miracle in that place except to lay his hands on a few sick [people] [and] heal [them].