You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;
they remember you in your ways.
But we have sinned, and you were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?[a]
All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted[b] 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[c][d] our iniquity.

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Footnotes

  1. 64:5 Lit angry; in them continually and we will be saved; Hb obscure
  2. 64:6 Lit menstrual
  3. 64:7 LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read and delivered us into the hand of
  4. 64:7 Lit melt by the hand of

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