Isaiah 59:2

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

When good people pray, the Lord listens, but he ignores those who are evil.

Isaiah 1:15

“When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Isaiah 57:17

I was angry with them because of their sin and greed, and so I punished them and abandoned them. But they were stubborn and kept on going their own way.

Isaiah 58:4

Your fasting makes you violent, and you quarrel and fight. Do you think this kind of fasting will make me listen to your prayers?

Jeremiah 5:25

Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

Lamentations 1:8

Her honor is gone; she is naked and held in contempt. She groans and hides her face in shame. Jerusalem made herself filthy with terrible sin.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my spirit on the people of Israel and never again turn away from them. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”

Micah 3:4

The time is coming when you will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.

Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned! They have broken the agreement with me that I ordered them to keep. They have taken some of the things condemned to destruction. They stole them, lied about it, and put them with their own things.

1 Samuel 4:3

When the survivors came back to camp, the leaders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let the Philistines defeat us today? Let's go and bring the Lord's Covenant Box from Shiloh, so that he will go with us and save us from our enemies.”