Children of foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their hideouts.
Isaiah 64:6 - Tree of Life Version No one calls on Your Name, or stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Children of foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their hideouts.
How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
“Indeed, I am unworthy— what can I reply to You? I put my hand over my mouth.
The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”
But there will be a crushing of transgressors and sinners together. Forsaking Adonai, they will be consumed.
For you will be like an oak of withering leaf, like a garden that has no water.
Yet you have not called on Me, Jacob, for you have been weary of Me, Israel.
Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the Name of Israel, who came from the wellspring of Judah, who swear by the Name of Adonai and confess the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness.
Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea at My rebuke, I make rivers a wilderness— their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us turned to his own way. So Adonai has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
I will wait for Adonai, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
As it is written in the Torah of Moses, all this calamity came on us, yet we have not sought the favor of Adonai Eloheinu by turning away from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.
A wind will wrap her up in its wings. They will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
All of them are hot like an oven, and they devour their rulers. All of their kings have fallen. None among them calls on Me.
“Suppose the tza'arat breaks out above the flesh, and so far as it all appears in the eyes of the kohen, covers all the skin of the infected person from his head to his feet.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me—that is, in my flesh. For to will is present in me, but to do the good is not.
and be found in Him not having my righteousness derived from Torah, but one that is through trusting in Messiah—the righteousness from God based on trust.
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these dressed in white robes, and where have they come from?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.”