Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters,

The people have sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the accursed thing, and put it into their store.

God is far from the ungodly, but He hears the prayers of the righteous. [ 15:29A] Better are small receipts with righteousness, than abundant fruits with unrighteousness. [ 15:29B] Let the heart of a man think justly, that his steps may be rightly ordered of God.

Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

On account of sin for a little while I grieved him and struck him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

And I will surely turn away My face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.

and said, I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel was led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against Me, and I turned away My face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away My face from them.

And I will no more turn away My face from them, because I have poured out My wrath upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.