Isaiah 57:17

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ¹ 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ² 

Deuteronomy 31:17-18

31:17 At that time ³  my anger will erupt against them ⁴  and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome ⁵  them ⁶  so that they ⁷  will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters ⁸  overcome us ⁹  because our ¹⁰  God is not among us ¹¹ ?’ 31:18 But I will certainly ¹²  hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they ¹³  will have done by turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 32:20

32:20 He said, “I will reject them, ¹⁴ 

I will see what will happen to them;

for they are a perverse generation,

children ¹⁵  who show no loyalty.

Ezekiel 39:23-24

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ¹⁶  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword. 39:24 According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 39:29

39:29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, ¹⁷  declares the sovereign Lord.”

Micah 3:4

3:4 Someday these sinners will cry to the Lord for help, ¹⁸ 

but he will not answer them.

He will hide his face from them at that time,

because they have done such wicked deeds.”

¹ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

² tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

³ tn Heb “on that day.” This same expression also appears later in the verse and in v. 18.

⁴ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁵ tn Heb “find,” “encounter.”

⁶ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁸ tn Heb “evils.”

⁹ tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.

¹⁰ tn Heb “my.”

¹¹ tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.

¹² tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

¹³ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁴ tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”

¹⁶ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.

¹⁷ sn See Ezek 11:19; 37:14.

¹⁸ tn Heb “then they will cry out to the Lord.” The words “Someday these sinners” have been supplied in the translation for clarification.