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Isa_59:2 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 very great distance (hinted also by the redundance of speech that is here in the original), or rather defiance. {Psa_5:5 Pro_15:29; Pro_29:13} Nothing intricates our actions more than our sins, which do likewise ensnare our souls, while they are as a wall of separation between God and us, {Eze_43:8} and as an interstitium, such as is the firmament that divideth the upper and the lower waters. {Gen_1:6}
And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.] Crudelem modicum intemperans aeger facit. {a} Sin is as a devil in the air, saith one, to hinder our prayers; turning from sin will charm the devil, and make him fall from heaven.
{a} Mimus.