Isaiah 64:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean [ceremonially, like a leper], and all our righteousness (our best deeds of rightness and justice) is like filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away [far from God's favor, hurrying us toward destruction]. [Lev. 13:45, 46.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁶ We have all become like the unclean; all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. All of us wither like a leaf; our sins, like the wind, carry us away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And we are all become as one unclean: and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman. And we have all fallen as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 1:30

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.

Isaiah 43:22

“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

Isaiah 46:12

“Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Isaiah 48:1

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and giving heed to thy truth.

Hosea 4:19

A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

Hosea 7:7

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; and none of them calls upon me.

Leviticus 13:12

And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

Zechariah 3:3

Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Romans 7:24

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith;

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

Revelation 7:13

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?”