“…How can we be saved?
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.
Yet, Oh Lord, you are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the Potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Do not be angry beyond measure, Oh Lord; do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.”{1}
These are the words of the prophet Isaiah – a lament for the falling away of God’s chosen people, Israel. And, what a striking picture!
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags…”
Here, Isaiah is describing the deplorable condition of Israel’s sinfulness with a picture – filthy rags.
What does he mean by “filthy”?
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