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Isaiah 59:2
Isaiah 59:2 is verse 2 of Isaiah chapter 59, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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 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.
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.
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Isaiah 59:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
2 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.
3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 50:1This 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.
Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Joshua 7:11Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
Isaiah 57:17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
Deuteronomy 31:18And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
Ezekiel 39:23And 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.
Ezekiel 39:24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
Ezekiel 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
Micah 3:4Then 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.