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but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
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Sin Creates a Barrier
Commentators unanimously explain that sin acts like a physical barrier, a "partition wall" or a thick cloud, that divides us from God. This separation is not because God has moved or changed, but because our actions have built a wall that blocks communion with Him and obscures His presence from us.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But your iniquities - This refers to the sins that the prophet specified in the previous chapter and proceeds to specify further in this one…
19th Century
Anglican
Have separated — i.e., have become, as it were, a middle wall of partition excluding them from the Divine presen…
16th Century
Protestant
But your iniquities have made a separation. The essence of what is said is that they cannot say that God has changed, as if He had deviate…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ver. 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, &c.] Like a partition wall dividing between them, so …
If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not accomplished for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but be…
13th Century
Catholic
Behold, the hand of the Lord is not shortened. Here the prophet presents the preparation for receiving salvation on the part of …
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