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You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,
    those who remember You in Your ways.
Indeed, You were angry, for we had sinned;
    in our sins we remained a long time,
    and shall we be saved?
But we all are as an unclean thing,
    and all our righteousness is as filthy rags;
and we all fade as a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
There is no one who calls on Your name,
    who stirs up himself to take hold of You;
for You have hidden Your face from us
    and have consumed us because of our iniquities.

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You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(A)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.(B)
    How then can we be saved?
All of us have become like one who is unclean,(C)
    and all our righteous(D) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(E)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(F)
No one(G) calls on your name(H)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(I) your face from us
    and have given us over(J) to[a] our sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of