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Never have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for him.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.

And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

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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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