Isaiah 59:2

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But your iniquities have created a divide between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

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  • Jer 5:25 : 25 Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the evil they have done.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 39:23-24 : 23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile because of their sin and unfaithfulness, so I hid my face from them and gave them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and I hid my face from them.
  • Ezek 39:29 : 29 And I will no longer hide my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Isa 57:17 : 17 Because of their sinful greed, I was angry; I struck them and turned away in anger, yet they continued in their willful ways.
  • Isa 58:4 : 4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
  • Deut 31:17-18 : 17 On that day, my anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide my face from them, and they will be consumed. Many disasters and calamities will come upon them, and on that day they will say, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?' 18 'And I will surely hide my face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.'
  • Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, and they have put them with their own possessions.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Deut 32:19-20 : 19 The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters. 20 He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says: Where is the certificate of divorce for your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Behold, because of your sins, you were sold, and because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

  • Isa 59:1
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    1Look, the arm of the LORD is not too weak to save, nor is His ear too dull to hear.

  • Isa 64:5-7
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    5We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like filthy rags. We wither like a leaf, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

    6No one calls on your name or rouses themselves to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have melted us away in the grip of our sins.

    7But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

  • Isa 1:15-16
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    15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.

    16Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil.

  • Isa 59:12-14
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities.

    13We have rebelled and denied the LORD; we have turned away from following our God. We speak of oppression and revolt, conceiving lies and uttering them from the heart.

    14Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands far off, for truth has stumbled in the streets, and honesty cannot enter.

  • Ps 66:18
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    18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

  • Ps 51:9
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    9Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

  • Mic 3:4
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    4Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the evil they have done.

  • Hos 14:1
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    1Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

  • Ps 90:8
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    8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

  • Ps 65:3
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    3You who hear prayer, to you all humanity will come.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness and the guilt of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against You.

  • Isa 65:7
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    7Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'

  • Jer 2:5
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    5This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • Lam 3:44
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    44You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

  • Dan 9:5
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    5we have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commandments and judgments.

  • Jer 3:13
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    13Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, Jacob, and complain, Israel, 'My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God'?

  • Isa 1:4-5
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    4Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.

    5Why will you still be struck down? Why do you continue to rebel? Every head is sick, and every heart is faint.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Jer 44:22
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    22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Ezek 39:24
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    24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and I hid my face from them.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Jer 30:14-15
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    14All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. I have struck you as an enemy would, with cruel punishment, because of the greatness of your guilt and the many sins you have committed.

    15Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because of your great guilt and many sins, I have done these things to you.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Isa 58:9
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    9Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing finger, and malicious talk.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their backs on His dwelling place, and walked away.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • Jer 2:22
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    22Though you wash yourself with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Lord GOD.

  • Mal 2:13
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    13And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hands.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

  • Job 11:14
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    14if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tent,

  • Ezra 9:6
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    6I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.'

  • Prov 15:29
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    29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

  • Prov 28:9
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    9If anyone turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is detestable.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Jer 2:29
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    29Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,” declares the LORD.

  • Job 22:5
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    5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but shame covers our faces today—to the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where You have driven them because of their unfaithfulness to You.

    8O LORD, shame covers us—our kings, our rulers, and our ancestors—because we have sinned against You.

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    14As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or petition for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me because of their disaster.

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    7Though our iniquities testify against us, LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.