2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa. 58:3. Now here he shows, I. That it was not owing to God. They had no reason to lay the fault upon him that they were not saved out of the hands of their enemies; for, 1. He was still as able to help as ever…
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