Isa 64:6 | KingComments | STEP | They have all become unclean ( ). What they first considered to be righteous deeds for themselves, their orthodoxy, they now acknowledge that for the LORD it is only a filthy garment. Only when they acknowledge this they can put on the “robe of righteousness” which the LORD gives them ( ). They have come to the conclusion that they have all fallen off as foliage and that their iniquities have carried them away from the LORD like the wind. All this provides a warning regarding the consequences of a persistent deviation from the ways of God. Conscious apostasy leads to a forgetting of God. This is how it is in Israel. There is no one who invokes His Name, no one who arouses himself to take hold of God ( ). Insensitivity to sin causes insensitivity to God’s rights and His mercies. The consequence of their apostasy is that God has withdrawn His mercies from them, hidden His face from them, and consumed them in their iniquities.

‏ Isaiah 64:6

Acknowledgment of Iniquities

They have all become unclean (Isa 64:6). What they first considered to be righteous deeds for themselves, their orthodoxy, they now acknowledge that for the LORD it is only a filthy garment. Only when they acknowledge this they can put on the “robe of righteousness” which the LORD gives them (Isa 61:10). They have come to the conclusion that they have all fallen off as foliage and that their iniquities have carried them away from the LORD like the wind.

All this provides a warning regarding the consequences of a persistent deviation from the ways of God. Conscious apostasy leads to a forgetting of God. This is how it is in Israel. There is no one who invokes His Name, no one who arouses himself to take hold of God (Isa 64:7). Insensitivity to sin causes insensitivity to God’s rights and His mercies. The consequence of their apostasy is that God has withdrawn His mercies from them, hidden His face from them, and consumed them in their iniquities.