KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Isaiah 64:6
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
WEB World English Bible
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
ASV American Standard Version
For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And we are as unclean—all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 64
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 the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 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.
7 And [there is] none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.
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וַנְּהִ֤יH1961 · ha.yahto beכַטָּמֵא֙H2931 · ta.meuncleanכֻּלָּ֔נוּH3605 · kolallוּכְבֶ֥גֶדH899 · be.gedtreacheryעִדִּ֖יםH5708 · id.dahfilthכָּל־H3605 · kolallצִדְקֹתֵ֑ינוּH6666 · tse.da.qahrighteousnessוַנָּ֤בֶלH5034 · na.valbe senselessכֶּֽעָלֶה֙H5929 · a.lehleafכֻּלָּ֔נוּH3605 · kolallוַעֲוֹנֵ֖נוּH5771 · a.vaniniquity: crimeכָּר֥וּחַH7307 · ru.achspiritיִשָּׂאֻֽנוּ׃H5375 · na.sato lift: raise
Cross-references
Romans 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.Romans 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?Ephesians 2:1-2And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;Zechariah 3:3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.Revelation 3:17-18Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.Job 42:5-6I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.Philippians 3:9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:Isaiah 46:12Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness:Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.Isaiah 57:12-13I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.Job 15:14-16What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Psalm 90:5-6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.Job 40:4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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