Isaiah 64:6

But we have become as one unclean all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,—And so we faded like a leaf all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

5Yet didst thou meet Him who was rejoicing and working righteousness, Even them who in thy ways, remembered thee,—Lo! thou, hast been vexed, And truly we had sinned, Among them, was the prospect of an age [to come], That we might be saved.

7And there was none To call upon thy Name, To rouse himself to lay firm hold on thee,—For thou hadst hidden thy face from us, And hadst made us despond, by means of our iniquity.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:12But, if the leprosy, cometh quite out, in the skin, and the leprosy covereth all the skin of him that, is plagued, from his head even unto his feet,—so far as appeareth to the eyes of the priest,

Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!

Job 25:4How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?

Job 42:5By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.

Psalms 14:4Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people [as] they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.

Psalms 90:5Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,

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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