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)