You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[a]
(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
(C)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in[b] the hand of our iniquities.

(D)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    (E)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    (F)we are all the work of your hand.
(G)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
    (H)and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
  2. Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into

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