But 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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Gill's Exposition
Like a partition wall dividing between them, so that they enjoy no communion with him in his worship and ordinances; which is greatly the case of the reformed churches: they profess the true God, and…
Barnes' Notes
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)…
Adam Clarke
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 mem, sequitur, et loquitur Deus;…
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.…
Cambridge Bible
your iniquities have separated Lit. "have been separating." The expression is that used of the firmament in Gen 1:6; it implies that guilt has been a permanent cause of alienation between Israel and…
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