Isaiah 59:2

King James 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.

Parallel Translations

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.

New American Standard Bible (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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not.

Darby Translation
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth 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.

Literal Translation
But your iniquities are coming between you and your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is your sins that separate you from your God. He turns away from you when he sees them.

World 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.

King James Version (1611)
But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hid his face from you, that he will not heare.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yor my?dedes haue separated you from yor God, & yor synnes hyde his face from you, yt he heareth you not.

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.

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.

Update Bible 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.

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.

New Century Version
It is your evil that has separated you from your God. Your sins cause him to turn away from you, so he does not hear you.

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

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hidde his face from you, that he will not heare.

George Lamsa Translation
But it is your iniquities that have separated you and your God; and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

JPS Old Testament (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.

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.

New Life Bible
But your wrong-doings have kept you away from your God. Your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

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.

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 will not hear.

New Revised Standard
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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, your iniquities, have become separators betwixt you and your God, And your sins, have caused a biding of face from you that he should-not hear.

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.

Lexham English Bible
Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but youre wickidnessis han departid bitwixe you and youre God, and youre synnes han hid his face fro you, that he schulde not here.

Revised Standard Version
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does 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.

Contextual Overview

¹ Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 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. ³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. ⁴ None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. ⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. ⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. ⁸ The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your iniquities: Isaiah 50:1, Deuteronomy 32:19, Joshua 7:11, Proverbs 15:29, Jeremiah 5:25

hid: or, made him hide, Isaiah 57:17, Deuteronomy 31:17, Deuteronomy 31:18, Deuteronomy 32:20, Ezekiel 39:23, Ezekiel 39:24, Ezekiel 39:29, Micah 3:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:18 - before Exodus 33:7 - afar off Numbers 32:23 - be sure your sin Deuteronomy 1:42 - for I am not Joshua 7:4 - fled Joshua 7:12 - the children Judges 6:13 - why then Judges 16:20 - the Lord 2 Kings 5:27 - leprosy Ezra 5:12 - But after Psalms 13:1 - wilt thou hide Psalms 18:41 - General Psalms 27:9 - Hide Isaiah 1:15 - when Isaiah 8:17 - hideth Isaiah 42:24 - General Isaiah 64:7 - hast hid Jeremiah 21:2 - according Jeremiah 29:4 - whom Lamentations 1:8 - hath Ezekiel 8:18 - and though Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Hosea 4:2 - swearing Micah 2:7 - is Habakkuk 1:4 - for Mark 6:5 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,.... Like a partition wall dividing between them, so that they enjoy no communion with him in his worship and ordinances; which is greatly the case of the reformed churches: they profess the true God, and the worship of him, and do attend the outward ordinances of it; but this is done in such a cold formal way, and such sins and wickedness are perpetrated and connived at, that the Lord does not grant his gracious presence to them, but stands at a distance from them:

and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear; or have caused him to hide himself; withdraw his gracious presence; neglect the prayers put up to him; deny an answer to them; or, however, not appear as yet for the deliverance and salvation of them, and bringing them into a more comfortable, prosperous, and happy condition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But your iniquities - That is, the sins which the prophet had specified in the previous chapter, and which he proceeds further to specify in this.

Have separated - The word used here (בדל bâdal) conveys the idea of division, usually by a curtain or a wall Exodus 26:33; Ezekiel 42:20. Thus the ‘firmament’ (רקיע râqı̂ya‛, “expanse”) is said to have “divided” or “separated” (מבדיל mab^edı̂yl) the waters from the waters Genesis 1:6. The idea here is, that their sins were like a partition between them and God, so that there was no contact between them and him.

And your sins have hid his face from you - Margin, ‘Made him hide.’ The Hebrew word here is in Hiphil, meaning ‘to cause to hide.’ Kimchi and Aben Ezra understand it as causing him to hide his face; Vitringa as hiding, his face. The metaphor, says Vitringa, is not taken from a man who turns away his face from one because he does not choose to attend to what is said, but from something which comes between two persons, like a dense cloud, which hides one from the other. And, according to this, the idea is, that their sins had risen up like a thick, dark cloud between them and God, so that they had no clear view of him, and no contact with him - as a cloud hides the face of the sun from us. A similar idea occurs in Lamentations 3:44 :

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,

That our prayers should not pass through.

But it seems to me more probable that the Hiphil signification of the verb is here to be retained, and that the idea is, that their sins had caused Yahweh to hide or turn away his face from their prayers from an unwillingness to hear them when they were so deeply immersed in sin. Thus the Septuagint, ‘On account of your sins he has turned away his face (ἀπέστρεψε τὸ πρόωπον apestrepse to prosōpon) from you, so that he will not have mercy’ (τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι tou mē eleēsai). It is universally true that indulgence in sin causes God to turn away his face, and to witchold mercy and compassion. He cannot pardon those who indulge in transgression, and who are unwilling to abandon the ways of sin (compare the notes at Isaiah 1:15).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 59:2. His face — For פנים panim, faces, I read panaiv, his face. So the Syriac, Septuagint, Alexandrian, Arabic, and Vulgate. פני panai, MS. Forte legendum פני panai, nam מ mem, sequitur, et loquitur Deus; confer cap. lviii. 14. "We should perhaps read פני panai; for מ mem follows, and God is the speaker." - SECKER. I rather think that the speech of God was closed with the last chapter, and that this chapter is delivered in the person of the prophet. - L.