Isaiah 64:6

We've all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away.

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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

In Context

5You join with those who are glad, and with those who do what's right and remember to follow your ways. But when we went on sinning, you became angry. How can we be saved if we go on like this?

7There's no one who calls for you or really wants to hold on to you, because you have hidden your face from us and let us drown in our own sins.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12However, if the skin disease affects all their skin so that it covers their skin from head to toe, everywhere the priest can see,

Job 14:4Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.

Job 25:4How can a human being be right before God? Can anyone born of woman be pure?

Job 42:5Before, I had only heard about you, but now I've seen you for myself.

Psalms 14:4Won't these people who do evil ever learn? They consume my people as if they were eating bread, and refuse to pray to the Lord.

Psalms 90:5You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:2-6

Prayer for the Divine Presence; Blessings Prepared for the Saints. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of… Read the whole commentary →

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