Isaiah 64:6

We are all of us an unclean thing; Like a filthy garment is all our righteousness; We are all withered like a leaf, And our sins, like a storm, have blown us away.

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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

5Thou art the friend of those who joyfully do righteousness, Those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou art angry, and we are punished; Long doth the punishment endure, before we are delivered.

7There is none that calleth upon thy name, That stirreth himself up to cleave to thee; For thou hidest thy face from us, And lettest us perish by our iniquities.

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Cross References

Job 14:4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.

Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?

Job 42:5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now hath mine eye seen thee.

Psalms 14:4Shall not the evil-doers be requited, Who devour my people like bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

Psalms 90:5Thou carriest him away as with a flood; He is a dream; In the morning he springeth up like grass,

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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