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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Study Note
The confession 'we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags' (Hebrew 'iddim,' menstrual cloths — the most ceremonially impure garment in the Levitical system) is the Hebrew Bible's most thoroughgoing denial of human moral self-sufficiency. The corporate 'we' extends the indictment beyond personal sin to include Israel's covenant identity: even their best religious performances are tainted by the impurity of the heart that performs them. The verse has been consistently cited in Protestant soteriology as the counterpart to Isaiah 61:10's robe of righteousness with which God clothes the redeemed — human filthiness replaced by divine gift-clothing. Romans 3:10-12's catena of Old Testament texts ('there is none righteous, no, not one') develops the same comprehensive anthropology of universal moral inadequacy before God.
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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.
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.
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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