Isaias 59:2

Filipino Cebuano Bible

2 Apan ang inyong mga kasal-anan maoy nakapahamulag kaninyo ug sa inyong Dios, ug ang inyong mga sala nakapatago sa iyang nawong gikan kaninyo, aron siya dili makadungog.

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.