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All of us are dirty with sin.
    All the right things we have done are like filthy pieces of cloth.
All of us are like dead leaves,
    and our sins, like the wind, have carried us away.
No one worships you
    or even asks you to help us.
That is because you have turned away from us
    and have let our sins destroy us.

But Lord, you are our father.
    We are like clay, and you are the potter;
    your hands made us all.

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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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Footnotes

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