You (A)meet him who rejoices in (B)doing righteousness,
Who (C)remembers You in Your ways.
Behold, (D)You were angry, for we sinned,
We continued in [a]our sins for a long time;
Yet shall we be saved?
For all of us have become like one who is (E)unclean,
And all our (F)righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us (G)wither like a leaf,
And our (H)wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.
There is (I)no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself to take hold of You;
For You have (J)hidden Your face from us
And have [b]surrendered us to the power of our wrongdoings.

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  1. Isaiah 64:5 Lit them
  2. Isaiah 64:7 As in DSS and ancient versions; MT melted

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