Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:2 in other translations
| BSB | But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. |
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| WEB | But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. |
| ASV | but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear. |
| YLT | But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing. |
| DARBY | but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he doth not hear. |
| BBE | But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer. |
| Webster | But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. |
What does Isaiah 59:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 59:1-8
Reproofs of sin and wickedness. (Is. 59:1-8) Confession of sin, and lamentation for the consequences. (Is. 59:9-15) Promises of deliverance. (Is. 59:16-21) Verses 1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true colours, exceedingly sinful; and see sin in its…
Isaiah 59:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 59:2
- Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
- Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
- Micah 3:4
Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
- Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
- Deuteronomy 31:17-18
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
- Ezekiel 39:23-24
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
- Deuteronomy 32:19-20
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
- Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
- Ezekiel 39:29
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
- Joshua 7:11
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
- Isaiah 58:4
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
- Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
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Context
- Isaiah 59:1
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
- Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah 59:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas vuestras iniquidades han hecho división entre vosotros y vuestro Dios, y vuestros pecados han hecho ocultar su rostro de vosotros, para no oir. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais vos iniquités ont fait séparation entre vous et votre Dieu, et vos péchés ont fait qu’il a caché de vous sa face, pour ne pas écouter. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sondern eure Missetaten haben eine Scheidung gemacht zwischen euch und eurem Gott, und eure Sünden haben sein Angesicht vor euch verhüllt, daß er nicht hört. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sed iniquitates vestræ diviserunt inter vos et Deum vestrum; et peccata vestra absconderunt faciem ejus a vobis, ne exaudiret. |