⁶ For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

⁵ You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

⁶ In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

¹ You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵ Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"

⁶ The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

¹³ One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?"

²⁴ For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

²⁵ But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

¹¹ For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

³ For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

⁴ How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

⁴ "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

⁴ The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

¹² Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

¹ Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

¹² I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

¹³ When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

¹¹ At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

¹² a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

¹⁹ The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; And they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

⁸ He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

⁹ Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

¹⁰ Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?"

¹¹ He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!