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Nor have men heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God beside thee, that thou might do it again for the one who waits in him.

Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteousness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved.

¶ But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken 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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