Isaiah 64:6

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. 1 We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 1

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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 come to help those who rejoice in doing what is right, those who call to mind your ways and obey them. 1 You were angry when we sinned. In your ways we will always be rescued. 1

7There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. 1 For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12If the disease breaks out widely in the skin and covers all the skin of the person with the disease from his head to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,

Job 14:4Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. 1

Job 25:4How then can man be righteous with God? 1 How can he who is born of a woman be clean, acceptable to him? 1

Job 42:5I had heard about you by my ear's hearing, 1 but now my eye sees you. 1

Psalms 14:4Do they not know anything, those who commit iniquity, 1 those who eat up my people as they eat bread, 1 but who do not call on Yahweh? 1

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; 1 in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up. 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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