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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.

KJV

Sed iniquitates vestræ diviserunt inter vos et Deum vestrum ; et peccata vestra absconderunt faciem ejus a vobis, ne exaudiret.

Vulgate

ἀλλὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ὑμῶν διιστῶσιν ἀνὰ μέσον ὑμῶν καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν ἀπέστρεψεν τὸ πρόσωπον ἀφ’ ὑμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι.

LXX

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.

ASV

כִּ֤י אִם עֲוֺנֹֽתֵי/כֶם֙ הָי֣וּ מַבְדִּלִ֔ים בֵּינֵ/כֶ֕ם לְ/בֵ֖ין אֱלֹֽהֵי/כֶ֑ם וְ/חַטֹּֽאותֵי/כֶ֗ם הִסְתִּ֧ירוּ פָנִ֛ים מִ/כֶּ֖ם מִ/שְּׁמֽוֹעַ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
בֵּ֥ין
byn
noun · 405×
הַבְדִּ֕יל
hbdyl
verb · 42×
חַטָּ֖את
cht't
noun · 298×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 230×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Deceit is a thing easily detected, and weak, though it be daubed outside with ten thousand colors. For as those who whitewash decayed walls, cannot by the plastering make them sound, so too those who lie are easily found out, as in fact was the case here with the Jews. For when Christ said to them, If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me; We have heard, says one of the…
By such gross sins, however, they greatly offend God, deserve the sentence of death, grieve the Holy Spirit, suspend the exercise of faith, very deeply wound the conscience, and sometimes lose the awareness of grace for a time, until God's fatherly face shines upon them again when they turn back in earnest repentance.

Cross-references

  • Deut 31:17 — 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
  • Deut 32:19 — And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
  • Exod 33:7 — And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went
  • Ezek 39:23 — 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
  • Ezek 39:23 — 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
  • Ezek 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 8:17 — And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
  • Isa 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,
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 64:7 — And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
  • Jer 5:25 — Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
  • Jer 5:25 — Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
  • Josh 7:4 — So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
  • Josh 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
  • Josh 7:12 — Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy t
  • Lam 1:8 — Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
  • Mic 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.
  • Prov 15:29 — The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
  • Ps 13:1 — How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?