New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
We are unfit to worship you; each of our good deeds is merely a filthy rag. We dry up like leaves; our sins are storm winds sweeping us away.

New American Bible
We have all become like something unclean, all our just deeds are like polluted rags; We have all withered like leaves, and our crimes carry us away like the wind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

are all

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14-16 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just? . . .

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Job 40:4 What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Job 42:5,6 With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. . . .

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Romans 7:18,24 For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. . . .

Ephesians 2:1,2 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, . . .

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

all our

Isaiah 57:12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Zechariah 3:3 And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

Revelation 3:17,18 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. . . .

Revelation 7:13 And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they?

we all

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

Psalm 90:5,6 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24,25 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away. . . .

our iniquities

Isaiah 57:13 When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount.

Psalm 1:4 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 4:11,12 At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse. . . .

Hosea 4:19 The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices.

Zechariah 5:8-11 And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. . . .