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Isaiah 64:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

We are all dirty with sin. Even our good works are not pure. They are like bloodstained rags. We are all like dead leaves. Our sins have carried us away like wind.

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Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it.

What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?

Joshua was wearing a dirty robe as he stood in front of the angel.

We had all wandered away like sheep. We had gone our own way. And yet the Lord put all our guilt on him.

In the past we were foolish too. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to the many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We lived doing evil and being jealous. People hated us and we hated each other.

How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

I want to belong to him. In Christ I am right with God, but my being right does not come from following the law. It comes from God through faith. God uses my faith in Christ to make me right with him.

“Listen to me, you stubborn people! You are far from doing what is right.

I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother’s womb.

Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people in white robes? Where did they come from?”

I was frightened and said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure enough to speak to God, and I live among people who are not pure enough to speak to him. But I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

They went to those gods for safety, and they have lost their ability to think. Their altars will bring them shame.

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! You people call yourself ‘Israel,’ but you are from Judah’s family. When you take an oath, I, the Lord, the God of Israel, am the one whose name you use, but you are not honest and sincere.

But the wicked are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

“I am not worthy to speak! What can I say to you? I cannot answer you! I will put my hand over my mouth.

because you will be like an oak tree whose leaves are dying. You will be like a garden dying without water.

This is what the Lord says: “People of Israel, you say that I divorced your mother, Jerusalem. But where is the legal paper that proves I divorced her? My children, did I owe money to someone? Did I sell you to pay a debt? No, you were sold because of the bad things you did. Your mother was sent away because of the bad things you did.

“Sometimes a skin disease will spread all over a person’s body, covering the skin from head to foot. The priest must look at that person’s whole body.

They lose all their courage and come out of their hiding places shaking with fear.

Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for the Lord’s help. Don’t they know what they are doing?

But all the criminals and sinners will be destroyed. Those who stopped following the Lord will be removed.

The Lord has turned away from the family of Jacob. But I will wait for him. I trust that he will come to save us.

“Jacob, you did not pray to me. Israel, you became tired of me.

I came home and found no one there. I called and called, but no one answered. Do you think I cannot get you back? Do you think I cannot save you? Look, if I gave the command, the ocean would dry up! I can turn rivers into a desert. The fish would die without water, and their bodies would rot.

All those terrible things happened to us. This happened just as it is written in the Law of Moses, but we still have not asked the Lord our God for help. We still have not stopped sinning. We still do not pay attention to your truth, Lord.

They are all like hot ovens. They destroyed their rulers. All their kings fell. Not one of them called to me for help.




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