Isaiah 59:1,2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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, that have hands and cannot help, and ears and cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated Have been as a thick wall, between you and your God And have set him at a distance from you, Proverbs 15:29. “The reason of the continuance of your calamities is not any want either of power in God to deliver you, or of goodness to hear your prayers: but your own iniquities make him a stranger to you, interrupt the correspondence that used to be between God and his people, and stop the course of his blessings.” Lowth.

Isaiah 59:1-2

1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hida his face from you, that he will not hear.