John Trapp on Isaiah 59:1

CHAP. LIX.

Ver. 1. BEhold the Lords hand is not ſhortened] That their Faſts were not regarded, their Sabbath-keeping rewarded, as chap. 58.3, 14. their prayers anſwered, chap. 59.1, 2. according to expectation; the fault is not at all in God, ſaith the Prophet, as if he were now grown old, impotent, deafiſh, or biſon (as they were apt to conceit it) but meerly in themſelves, as appeareth by the following catalogue of ſins; which he therefore alſo, in his own and their names confeſſeth to God, and aſſigneth for the cauſe of their ſo long-laſting calamity.