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.
No one calls on your name,
striving to take hold of you.
For you have hidden your face from us(D)
and made us melt because of[b][c] our iniquity.
Yet Lord, you are our Father;(E)
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we all are the work of your hands.(F)

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  1. 64:6 Lit menstrual
  2. 64:7 LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read and delivered us into the hand of
  3. 64:7 Lit melt by the hand of

All of us have become like one who is unclean,(A)
    and all our righteous(B) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(C)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(D)
No one(E) calls on your name(F)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(G) your face from us
    and have given us over(H) to[a] our sins.

Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(I)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(J)
    we are all the work of your hand.(K)

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  1. Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

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.

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, because of our iniquities.

But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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