Isaiah 59:2

Isaiah chapter 59 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

v.1Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

v.2This passage

v.3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ezekiel 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 Jehovah.
Joshua 7:11
Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
Proverbs 15:29
Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid my face and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.