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Isaiah 64:4-6
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 64:4-6
Contemporary English Version
4 (A) You are the only God
ever seen or heard of
who works miracles
for his followers.
5 You help all who gladly obey
and do what you want,
but sin makes you angry.
Only by your help
can we ever be saved.[a]
6 We are unfit to worship you;
each of our good deeds
is merely a filthy rag.
We dry up like leaves;
our sins are storm winds
sweeping us away.
Footnotes
- 64.5 saved: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.
Isaiah 64:4-6
New International Version
Isaiah 64:4-6
New International Version
4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,(A)
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.(B)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(C)
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.(D)
How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,(E)
and all our righteous(F) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(G)
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(H)
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