Adonai is far from the wicked, but hears the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 59:2 - Tree of Life Version Rather, your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God. Your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible but your misdeeds have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden his face from you so that you aren’t heard. Catholic Public Domain Version But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But your iniquities have divided between you and your God: and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear. |
Adonai is far from the wicked, but hears the prayer of the righteous.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”
Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry; I struck him; I hid My face; I was angry—but he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
Behold, you fast for strife and contention and to strike with a wicked fist. You should not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high.
Your iniquities have turned these away, your sins have deprived you of bounty.
Jerusalem has greatly sinned— therefore, she has become niddah . All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans, and turns away.
I will never again hide My face from them. For I have poured out My Ruach upon the house of Israel.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
Then they will cry out to Adonai, but He will not answer them. Thus He will hide His face from them at that time, because of their evil deeds.
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have also transgressed My covenant, which I commanded them. Now they have even taken of the things under the ban of destruction. So they have also stolen and even deceived, and even put them among their own possessions.
When the people came back to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did Adonai bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let’s fetch the ark of the covenant of Adonai from Shiloh that He may come among us and deliver us from the hand of our enemies.”