Isaiah 59:2

New International Reader's Version

But your sins have separated you from your God. They have caused him to turn his face away from you. So he won’t listen to you.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far away from those who do wrong. But he hears the prayers of those who do right.

Isaiah 1:15

You might spread out your hands toward me when you pray. But I do not look at you. You might even offer many prayers. But I am not listening to them. Your hands are covered with the blood of the people you have murdered.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says to the people in Jerusalem, “Do you think I divorced your people who lived before you? Is that why I sent them away? If it is, show me the letter of divorce. I did not sell you into slavery to pay someone I owe. You were sold because you sinned against me. Your people were sent away because of their lawless acts.

Isaiah 57:17

I was very angry with them. They always longed for more and more of everything. So I punished them for that sin. I turned my face away from them because I was angry. But they kept on wanting their own way.

Isaiah 58:4

When you fast, it ends in arguing and fighting. You hit one another with your fists. That is an evil thing to do. The way you are now fasting keeps your prayers from being heard in heaven.

Jeremiah 5:25

But the things you have done wrong have robbed you of these gifts. Your sins have kept these good things far away from you.’

Lamentations 1:8

Her people have committed many sins. They have become impure. All those who honored Jerusalem now look down on her. They all look at her as if she were a naked woman. The city groans and turns away in shame.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will no longer turn my face away from the people of Israel. I will pour out my Spirit on them,” announces the Lord and King.

Micah 3:4

The time will come when Israel will cry out to the Lord. But he won’t answer them. In fact, he’ll turn his face away from them. They have done what is evil.

Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned. I made a covenant with them. I commanded them to keep it. But they have broken it. They have taken some of the things that had been set apart to me in a special way to be destroyed. They have stolen. They have lied. They have taken the things they stole and have put them with their own things.

1 Samuel 4:3

The rest of the Israelite soldiers returned to camp. Then the elders asked them, “Why did the Lord let the Philistines win the battle over us today? Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Let’s take it with us. Then the Lord will save us from the power of our enemies.”