Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And all our
And all of us
And our
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.
Holman Bible
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities
International Standard Version
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.
A Conservative Version
For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Amplified
For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper],
And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags;
We all wither and decay like a leaf,
And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction].
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.
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;
Julia Smith Translation
And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
Modern King James verseion
But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.
NET Bible
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
New Heart English Bible
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
The Emphasized Bible
But we have become as one unclean all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings, - And so we faded like a leaf all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;
Webster
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 as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Afflicted saints » Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements
Character » Of the wicked » Unclean
Confession of sin » Should be accompanied with » Self-abasement
Dress » Figurative » Filthy, of unrighteousness
Hiding » Who the lord hides himself from
Iniquity » The reward for iniquity
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
Righteousness » Saints » Count their own, as filthy rags
Self-righteousness » Is vain because our righteousness is » No better than filthy rags
Sin » There not being a single person who does not sin
Wind » Illustrative » Of iniquity which leads to destruction
Topics
Interlinear
Tame'
Ts@daqah
Beged
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 64:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Mercy
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved? 6 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. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Job 42:5-6
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.
Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Ephesians 2:1-2
And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job 40:4
Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Isaiah 46:12
Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:
Isaiah 48:1
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 57:12-13
I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 4:11-12
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Hosea 4:19
The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Zechariah 5:8-11
And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
James 1:10-11
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 1:24-25
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
Revelation 3:17-18
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
Revelation 7:13
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, These that are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and whence came they?