Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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;
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
Nabel
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 64:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Mercy
5 Thou mettest him rejoicing and doing justice, they shall remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wert angry; and we shall sin in them of old, and we shall be saved. 6 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. 7 And none calling upon thy name, none rousing himself to take hold upon thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us, and thou wilt melt us by the hand of our iniquities.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Job 42:5-6
By the hearing of the ear I heard of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee:
Job 14:4
For who shall give a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
Isaiah 6:5
And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.
Romans 7:24
I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?
Ephesians 2:1-2
And ye being dead in faults and in sins;
Job 15:14-16
What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?
Job 25:4
And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?
Job 40:4
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.
Psalm 1:4
Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Isaiah 46:12
Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.
Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, ye house of Jacob, being called by the name of Israel, and from the water of Judah they came forth swearing by the name of Jehovah, and by the God of Israel they shall bring to remembrance, not in truth and not in justice.
Isaiah 53:6
All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.
Isaiah 57:12-13
I will announce thy justice and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.
Jeremiah 4:11-12
In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A clear wind of the naked hills in the desert the way of the daughter of my people, not for winnowing, and not for separating.
Hosea 4:19
The wind bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices
Zechariah 3:3
And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments, and he stood before the messenger.
Zechariah 5:8-11
And he will say, This injustice. And he will cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he will cast a stone of lead upon its mouth.
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:
Titus 3:3
For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.
James 1:10-11
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:
Revelation 3:17-18
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
Revelation 7:13
And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they