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We are all like one who is unclean,
all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.[a]
We all wither like a leaf;
our sins carry us away like the wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:6 tn Heb “and like a garment of menstruation [are] all our righteous acts”; KJV, NIV “filthy rags”; ASV “a polluted garment.”

All of us have become like one who is unclean,(A)
    and all our righteous(B) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(C)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(D)

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