Isaiah 59:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. His face - For פנים panim, faces, I read panaiv, his face. So the Syriac, Septuagint, Alexandrian, Arabic, and Vulgate. פני panai, MS. Forte legendum פני panai, nam מ mem, sequitur, et loquitur Deus; confer cap. Isaiah 58:14. "We should perhaps read פני panai; for מ mem follows, and God is the speaker." - Secker. I rather think that the speech of God was closed with the last chapter, and that this chapter is delivered in the person of the prophet. - L.

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.