Isaiah 59:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he does not hear you.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, but hears the prayer of the just.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands, I will close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood!

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Isaiah 57:17

Because of their wicked avarice I grew angry; I struck them, hiding myself from them in wrath. But they turned back, following the way of their own heart.

Isaiah 58:4

See, you fast only to quarrel and fight and to strike with a wicked fist! Do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high!

Jeremiah 5:25

Your crimes have prevented these things, your sins have turned these blessings away from you.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will no longer hide my face from them once I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel—oracle of the Lord God.

Micah 3:4

When they cry to the Lord, he will not answer them; He will hide his face from them at that time, because of the evil they have done.

Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned: they have transgressed the covenant which I enjoined on them. They have taken goods subject to the ban. They have stolen and lied, placing the goods in their baggage.

1 Samuel 4:3

When the troops retired to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord permitted us to be defeated today by the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the Lord from Shiloh that it may go into battle among us and save us from the grasp of our enemies.” Loss of the Ark.