Isaiah 64:6

And there is none that calleth upon Thy Shem, 1 that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee; 1 for Thou hast hid Thy face from us, 1 and hast consumed us, because of avoneinu. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5But we are all as the tameh (unclean thing), 1 and kol tzidkoteinu (all our righteousness, our righteous deeds, works) are like beged iddim (filthy rags, a garment of menstruation); 1 and we all do fade like the aleh (leaf); 1 and avoneinu (our iniquities), like the ruach, have taken us away. 1

7But now, Hashem, Thou art Avinu (Our Father); 1 we are the chomer (clay), and Thou, Yotzreinu (our Potter, Maker, Creator); 1 and we all are the ma'aseh (work) of Thy yad. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12And if a tzara'at break out abroad in the skin, and the tzara'at cover all the skin of him that hath the nega from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the kohen looketh,

Job 14:4Who can bring a tahor (clean thing) out of a tameh (an unclean)? + 14:4 cf. Ro 5:12 1 Loh echad (No one). 1

Job 25:4Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) 1 Or how can he be clean that is born of isha? 1

Job 42:5I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ozen, 1 but now mine eye hath seen Thee. 1

Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no da'as? 1 Who eat up my people as they eat lechem, 1 and call not upon Hashem. 1

Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; 1 they are as a sheinah (sleep); 1 in the boker they are like khatzir (grass) which withereth. 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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