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Isaiah 64:6
Each of us has become like something unclean,
from A Prayer for God’s Power, Isaiah 64:1-12
What it says

All have become unclean, and even their righteous deeds are like filthy garments.

What it is doing

This verse states the depth of human defilement and inability.

In context

1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, 2as fire kindles the brushwood 3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, 4From ancient times no one has heard, 5You welcome those who gladly do right, 6Each of us has become like something unclean, 7No one calls on Your name 8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; 9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. 11Our holy and beautiful temple, 12After all this, O LORD,