Isaiah 64:6 “Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous ac…”

Isaiah 64:6

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

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.

Bible in Basic English

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

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Cross references

“are all”

Romans 7:18 Romans 7:24 Isaiah 53:6 Titus 3:3 Job 14:4 Job 25:4

Romans 7:18 · BSB

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:24 · BSB

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Isaiah 53:6 · BSB

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Titus 3:3 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Job 14:4 · BSB

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Job 25:4 · BSB

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

“all our”

Zechariah 3:3 Philippians 3:9 Revelation 7:13 Isaiah 57:12 Revelation 3:17 Revelation 3:18

Zechariah 3:3 · BSB

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.

Philippians 3:9 · BSB

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

Revelation 7:13 · BSB

Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”

Isaiah 57:12 · BSB

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Revelation 3:17 · BSB

You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 3:18 · BSB

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

“we all”

Isaiah 40:6–8 Psalm 90:5 Psalm 90:6 James 1:10 James 1:11 1 Peter 1:24

Isaiah 40:6–8 · BSB

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

Psalm 90:5 · BSB

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Psalm 90:6 · BSB

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

James 1:10 · BSB

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

James 1:11 · BSB

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

1 Peter 1:24 · BSB

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

“our iniquities”

Psalm 1:4 Hosea 4:19 Isaiah 57:13 Jeremiah 4:11 Jeremiah 4:12 Zechariah 5:8–11

Psalm 1:4 · BSB

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Hosea 4:19 · BSB

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Isaiah 57:13 · BSB

When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

Jeremiah 4:12 · BSB

a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

Zechariah 5:8–11 · BSB

“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

Also

Isaiah 46:12 Isaiah 48:1

Isaiah 46:12 · BSB

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

Isaiah 48:1 · BSB

“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

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