Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
unclean thing--legally unclean, as a leper. True of Israel, everywhere now cut off by unbelief and by God's judgments from the congregation of the saints.
righteousness--plural, "uncleanness" extended to every particular act of theirs, even to their prayers and praises. True of the best doings of the unregenerate (Philippians 3:6-8; Titus 1:15; Hebrews 11:6).
filthy rags--literally, a "menstruous rag" (Leviticus 15:33; Leviticus 20:18; Lamentations 1:17).
fade . . . leaf-- (Psalms 90:5-6).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 102:10
Isaiah 59:6
Isaiah 64:1
Zechariah 3:3
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