Isaiah 59:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

It is your sins that separate you from your God. He turns away from you when he sees them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:25

You don’t have these blessings because you have done wrong. Your sins have kept these good things away from you.

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far away from the wicked, but he always hears the prayers of those who do what is right.

Micah 3:4

Then you will pray to the Lord, but he will not answer you. No, he will hide his face from you, because what you do is evil.”

Isaiah 1:15

“When you raise your arms to pray to me, I will refuse to look at you. You will say more and more prayers, but I will refuse to listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my Spirit on the family of Israel, and I will never turn away from my people again.” This is what the Lord GOD said.

Isaiah 57:17

Israel’s evil greed made me angry, so I punished them. I turned away from them because I was angry. But they continued to do wrong. They did whatever they wanted.

Joshua 7:11

The Israelites sinned against me. They have broken the agreement that I commanded them to obey. They took some of the things that I commanded them to destroy. They have stolen from me. They have lied. They have taken those things for themselves.

Isaiah 58:4

You are hungry, but not for food. You are hungry for arguing and fighting, not for bread. You are hungry to hit people with your evil hands. This is not the way to fast if you want your prayers to be heard in heaven!

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: “People of Israel, you say that I divorced your mother, Jerusalem. But where is the legal paper that proves I divorced her? My children, did I owe money to someone? Did I sell you to pay a debt? No, you were sold because of the bad things you did. Your mother was sent away because of the bad things you did.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned very badly. Because Jerusalem sinned, she became a ruined city that people shake their heads about. In the past people respected her. But now they hate her, because they abused her. Jerusalem groaned and turned away.

1 Samuel 4:3

The rest of the Israelite soldiers went back to their camp. The elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let the Philistines defeat us? Let’s bring the Lord’s Box of the Agreement from Shiloh. God will go with us into battle and save us from our enemies.”