Bible reasons for unanswered prayers

Isaiah 59 vs. 16

Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

1. Sin. Isaiah 59 vs. 2

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

2. Willful sin. Isaiah 59 vs. 2

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

3. Murderer, abortion. Isaiah 59 vs. 3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4. Lies. Isaiah 59 vs. 3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

5. Partiality. Isaiah 59 vs.4

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

6. Worldliness. Isaiah 59 vs. 4

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

7. Evil conspiracy. Isaiah 59 vs. 4

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

8. Wickedness. Isaiah 59 vs. 5

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

9. Crime and violence. Isaiah 59 vs. 6

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

        10. Evil thoughts. Isaiah 59 vs. 7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

11.Troublesomeness. Isaiah 59 vs. 8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

12. Disobedience. Isaiah 59 vs. 13

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

13. Deceit. Isaiah 59 vs. 13

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

        14. Prayerlessness. Isaiah 59 vs. 16

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.