Isaiah 59:2
New International Version
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

New Living Translation
It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.

English Standard Version
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

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

New King James Version
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

New American Standard Bible
But your wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

NASB 1995
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

NASB 1977
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Legacy Standard Bible
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

Amplified Bible
But your wickedness has separated you from your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

Christian Standard Bible
But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide His face from you so that He does not listen.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But your debts have separated between you and your God, and your sins turned his face from you that he will not hear

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.

Contemporary English Version
Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God. That's why he doesn't answer your prayers or let you see his face.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But your wrongs have separated you from your God, and your sins have made him hide his face so that he doesn't hear you.

Good News Translation
It is because of your sins that he doesn't hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him.

International Standard Version
Instead, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you so that he won't listen.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But your iniquities have separated Between you and your God, And your sins have hid His face from you, That He will not hear.

Literal Standard Version
But your iniquities have been separating | Between you and your God, | And your sins have hidden | The Presence from you—from hearing.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he does not hear you.

NET Bible
But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.

New Revised Standard Version
Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

New Heart English Bible
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

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

World English Bible
But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Young's Literal Translation
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.

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Audio Bible



Context
Sin Separates Us from God
1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. 2But 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. 3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.…

Cross References
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 50:1
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, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 58:4
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

Ezekiel 39:23
And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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.

Deuteronomy 32:19
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

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.

hid, or made him hide

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.

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? …

Deuteronomy 32:20
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.

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(2) Have separated--i.e., have become, as it were, a "middle wall of partition" excluding them from the Divine presence.

His face.--Better, the face. The Hebrew has neither article nor possessive pronoun, the substantive being treated almost as a proper name.

Verse 2. - Have separated; literally, have been separating. The force of the form used is continuous, and implies that Israel had now for a long time been heaping up a barrier between itself and Jehovah. Your sins have hid his face; literally, your sins have caused his face to be hidden from you, i.e. "have made him avert it."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your iniquities
עֲוֺנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

have built barriers
מַבְדִּלִ֔ים (maḇ·di·lîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 914: To be divided, separate

between you
בֵּינֵכֶ֕ם (bê·nê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

and your God,
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֑ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and your sins
וְחַטֹּֽאותֵיכֶ֗ם (wə·ḥaṭ·ṭō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

have hidden
הִסְתִּ֧ירוּ (his·tî·rū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5641: To hide, conceal

[His] face
פָנִ֛ים (p̄ā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

from you,
מִכֶּ֖ם (mik·kem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

so that He will not hear.
מִשְּׁמֽוֹעַ׃ (miš·šə·mō·w·a‘)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently


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