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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.
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A Shocking Confession
The prophet uses shockingly graphic language to describe the people's spiritual state. Commentators explain that being 'unclean' evokes the image of a leper, and 'polluted garment' (or 'filthy rags') most likely refers to a menstruous cloth—the height of ceremonial impurity in the Old Testament. This conveys a state of profound defilement before a holy God, not just minor flaws.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But we are all as an unclean thing - We are all polluted and defiled. The word used here (טמא ṭâmē'), means properly that …
19th Century
Anglican
We are all as an unclean thing ... —Better, as "he who is unclean," namely, like the leper of Leviticus 13:45.
Baptist
It is not a flattering picture that the prophet draws. Even our righteousnesses are like filthy rags, fit only for the fire; what must our righteou…
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16th Century
Protestant
We have all been as the unclean. The believers go on in their complaint, for they deplore their condition because God appears to pay no at…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But we are all as an unclean thingF20; so all men are in a state of nature: man was made pure and holy, but by…
The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, acknowledging themselves unworthy of His mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which…
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13th Century
Catholic
O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.
First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …
