Isaiah 64:6

And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

5and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

7And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thy hands.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the head to the feet, wheresoever the priest shall look;

Job 14:4For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one; 1

Job 25:4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? 1 Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself? 1

Job 42:5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; 1 But now mine eye has seen thee. 1

Psalms 14:4In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, 1 But he honors them that fear the Lord. 1 He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints him not. 1

Psalms 90:5Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; 1 Nor of the arrow flying by day; 1

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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