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 prophet speaking of God by an anthropopathy, may understand his presence; and then it is, hath made him hide or withdraw his presence, as one that turns away his face from some noisome thing; or rather his favour, that though you cry to be delivered out of Babylon, yet you shall not find that favour. He will not hear, i.e. he will not grant it; thus it is used Psalms 45:12 Hosea 5:15: See Poole on "Isaiah 1:15": see Judges 10:13.
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Isaiah 59:2
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.