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You help all who gladly obey
and do what you want,
    but sin makes you angry.
Only by your help
    can we ever be saved.[a]
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.
No one worships in your name
    or remains faithful.
You have turned your back on us
and let our sins melt us away.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 64.5 saved: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.
  2. 64.7 and let … away: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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