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(5) You favored those who were glad to do justice,
those who remembered you in your ways.
When you were angry, we kept sinning;
but if we keep your ancient ways, we will be saved.
(6) All of us are like someone unclean,
all our righteous deeds like menstrual rags;
we wither, all of us, like leaves;
and our misdeeds blow us away like the wind.
(7) No one calls on your name
or bestirs himself to take hold of you,
for you have hidden your face from us
and caused our misdeeds to destroy us.

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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)
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?
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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