But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Mais ce sont vos crimes qui mettent une séparation Entre vous et votre Dieu; Ce sont vos péchés qui vous cachent sa face Et l'empêchent de vous écouter.
KJV
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.
Fulgentius of Ruspe
Sermons and Refutations on the Trinity
e, nor is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated you from your God" (Isaiah 59:1-2). In the Book of Wisdom, it is also shown that men are separated from God not by places, but by wicked thoughts and unjust actions. For it is said there: "Perverse t…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ore lessened; and these sins, indeed, are like obstacles interposed between us and God, according to Is. 59:2 : "Our sins have divided between us and God." Yet the aforesaid aptitude of the soul is not wholly taken away, for it belongs to its very nature. Reply to Objection 1: Th…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
chaste fear man fears to be severed from God." Now nothing but sin severs us from God; according to Is. 59:2 : "Your iniquities have divided between you and your God." Therefore the evil of sin can be an object of fear. Objection 2: Further, Cicero says (Quaest. Tusc. iv, 4,6) th…
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