Sin Separates Us from God
Isaiah 59:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.have hid: or, have made him hide
- WEB
- But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- ASV
- 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.
- LSV
- But your iniquities have been separating || Between you and your God, || And your sins have hidden || The Presence from you—from hearing.
- YLT
- But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you — from hearing.
- DBY
- but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth not hear.Elohim
- DRC
- But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
- GNV
- But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes haue hidde his face from you, that he will not heare.
- JPS
- But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.
- LXXE
- 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.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֤י אִם־עֲוֺנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ הָי֣וּ מַבְדִּלִ֔ים בֵּינֵכֶ֕ם לְבֵ֖ין אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֑ם וְחַטֹּֽאותֵיכֶ֗ם הִסְתִּ֧ירוּ פָנִ֛ים מִכֶּ֖ם מִשְּׁמֽוֹעַ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀλλὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ὑμῶν διϊστῶσιν ἀναμέσον ὑμῶν καὶ ἀναμέσον τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν ἀπέστρεψεν τὸ πρόσωπον ἀφʼ ὑμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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.
- 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.
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Deuteronomy 31:17–18On 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…
- Ezekiel 39:23–24And 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…
- Deuteronomy 32:19–20When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of…
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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…
- Isaiah 58:4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
- 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…
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