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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59
1. THEIR CRIMES
TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8
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Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
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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...
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1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of
restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
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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 YO...
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HAVE HID:
Or, have made him hide...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 59:2 iniquities H5771 separated H914 (H8688) from H996 God H430
sins H2403 hidden H5641 (H8689) face...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:2 INIQUITIES and sins create a barrier
between God and his people (see Hebrews 12:5)....
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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...
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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
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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'...
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Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy 32:19; Deuteronomy
32:20;...