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They have all fallen away; they are all alike perverse;
    there is no one who does good,
    no, not one.(A)

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12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    there is no one who shows kindness;
        there is not even one.”

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We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(A)

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They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
    there is no one who does good,
    no, not one.(A)

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Why then has this people[a] turned away
    in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
    they have refused to return.(A)
I have given heed and listened,
    but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,

All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.(A)

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11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.(A)

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11 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”(A)

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Children of God

29 If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.(A)

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Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.(A)

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those who have turned back from following the Lord,
    who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.(A)

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25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.(A)

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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
    one who drinks iniquity like water!(A)

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So all the people of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the people of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

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