but your iniquities, the sins by which they loaded guilt upon themselves, have separated between you and your God, erecting a barrier which made it impossible for the Lord to come to their aid, and your sins have hid His face from you that He will not hear, that His wrath over their disobedience will keep Him from granting their request.
Verse Isaiah 59:2. _HIS FACE_] For פנים _panim, faces_, I read _panaiv, his_ _face_. So the _Syriac, Septuagint, Alexandrian, Arabic_, and _Vulgate._ פני panai, MS. Forte legendum פני _panai_, nam מ...
BUT YOUR INIQUITIES - That is, the sins which the prophet had specified in the previous chapter, and which he proceeds further to specify in this. HAVE SEPARATED - The word used here (בדל _bâdal_) co...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Same word as in verses: Isaiah 59:3; Isaiah 59:12. Not the same as in verses: Isaiah 59:6; Isaiah 59:7....
These verses state briefly and forcibly the argument of which the whole chapter is the expansion: not the powerlessness or the indifference of Jehovah, but the sin of the people, is the hindrance to t...
_your iniquities have separated_ Lit. "have been separating." The expression is that used of the firmament in Genesis 1:6; it implies that guilt has been a permanent cause of alienation between Israel...
BEHOLD, THE LORD'S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED— The prophet here teaches, that the reason why God does not exert his power for the avenging of his people, is not because _his hand is shortened,_ but because...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. YOUR SINS HAVE HID (HIS) FACE FROM YOU - Hebrew, have caused Him to hide...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
It is we who have to change. Then God will act on our behalf. EVIL BEHAVIOUR V3 Blood stains your hands. The marks of crimes are on your fingers. You speak lies with your lips. You plot wicked sche...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...
HAVE SEPARATED — _i.e.,_ have become, as it were, a “middle wall of partition” excluding them from the Divine presence. HIS FACE. — Better, _the face._ The Hebrew has neither article nor possessive p...
כִּ֤י אִם ־עֲוֹנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ הָי֣וּ מַבְדִּלִ֔ים בֵּינֵכֶ֕ם...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
_Iniquities. The history of Susanna shews that the captives were not all free from sin, which alone prevented their liberation, Lamentations iii. 44. (Calmet) [Daniel xiii.] --- God is willing and abl...
What a blessed assurance does this Chapter open with; and, as if the Lord would have it particularly taken notice of, it is prefaced with a Behold! Very often, I believe, the people of God have found...
2._But your iniquities have made a separation. _The amount of what is said is, that they cannot say that God has changed, as if he had swerved from his natural disposition, but that the whole blame li...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
Ver. 2 BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD,.... Like a partition wall dividing between them, so that they enjoy no communion with him in his worship and ordinances; which is gr...
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. Ver. 2. _But your iniquities have severed,_] _i.e., _ Have set you at a...
_Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened_ He is not grown weaker than informer times, but is as omnipotent as ever he was; _neither his ear heavy_ Or dull of hearing: he is not like your idol gods, t...
HAVE HID: Or, have made him hide...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true c...
HAVE SEPARATED; have been as a thick wall between God and you; have set him at a great distance, PROVERBS 15:29. HAVE HID HIS FACE: this may be put synecdoehically for the whole person; and the prophe...
Isaiah 59:2 iniquities H5771 separated H914 (H8688) from H996 God H430 sins H2403 hidden H5641 (H8689) face...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,--_ SIN SEPARATES GOD AND MEN I. A DREADFUL EVIL THAT THIS PEOPLE WAS UNDER. Separation from God. II. THE PARTY AT WHOSE DOOR THE BLAME...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtues...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:2 INIQUITIES and sins create a barrier between God and his people (see Hebrews 12:5)....
THE SUPPOSED AND THE REAL CAUSE OF FAILURE IN THE CHURCH Isaiah 59:1. _Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, &c._ As the Church is essentially an aggressive institution, at some periods her succes...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy 32:19; Deuteronomy 32:20;...