Isaiah 64:6

But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 diddest meete him, that reioyced in thee, and did iustly: they remembred thee in thy wayes: beholde, thou art angrie, for we haue sinned: yet in them is continuance, and we shall be saued.

7And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12Also if the leprosie breake out in the skin, and the leprosie couer all the skin of the plague, from his head euen to his feete, wheresoeuer the Priest looketh,

Job 14:4Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

Job 25:4And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

Job 42:5I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.

Psalms 14:4Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.

Psalms 90:5Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:

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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