³ He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams^[a]
that bears its fruit in its season,^(A)
and its leaf does not wither.^(B)
Whatever he does prospers.^(C)

⁶ All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted^[a] garment;^(A)
all of us wither like a leaf,^(B)
and our iniquities^(C) carry us away like the wind.