Isaiah 64:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Are all

All our

Revelation 7:13

We all

Our iniquities

Zechariah 5:8

General references

Zechariah 3:3

Luke 17:10

Bible References

Are all

Then I said,

“Woe is me! For I am ruined,
Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

All of us like sheep have gone astray,
We have turned, each one, to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wickedness of us all [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]
To fall on Him [instead of us].

“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean?
No one!

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

“Behold, I am of little importance and contemptible; what can I reply to You?
I lay my hand on my mouth.

“I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear,
But now my [spiritual] eye sees You.

I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not.

And you [He made alive when you] were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of your transgressions and sins,

For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

All our

“I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not benefit you.

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy (nauseatingly vile) garments and was standing before the Angel [of the Lord].

and may be found in Him [believing and relying on Him], not having any righteousness of my own derived from [my obedience to] the Law and its rituals, but [possessing] that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith.

Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],

Then one of the elders responded, saying to me, “These who are dressed in the long white robes—who are they, and from where did they come?”

We all

A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For,“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

Our iniquities

“When you cry out [for help], let your [ridiculous] collection of idols save you.
But the wind will carry them all away,
A [mere] breath will take them.
But he who takes refuge in Me will possess the land [Judea]
And will inherit My holy mountain.”

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the wilderness [comes at My command] against the daughter of My people—not [a wind] to winnow and not to cleanse [from chaff, as when threshing, but]

The wind [of God’s relentless wrath] has wrapped up Israel in its wings,
And [in captivity] they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices [to calves, to sun, to moon, to stars, and to pagan gods].

Then he said, “This is Wickedness (Godlessness)!” And he threw her back down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead cover on its opening.

General references

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy (nauseatingly vile) garments and was standing before the Angel [of the Lord].

So you too, when you have done everything that was assigned and commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants [undeserving of praise or a reward, for we have not gone beyond our obligation]; we have merely done what we ought to do.’”