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 Proverbs 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.