Our hearts are polluted; our good deeds are like menstrual rags

Isaiah 64:5 - 7

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways.

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned--

In these ways we continue;

And we need to be saved.

But we are all like an unclean thing,

And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;

We all fade as a leaf;

And our iniquities, like the wind,

Have taken us away.

And there is no one who calls on Your name,

Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Jeremiah 17:5 - 10

Thus says the LORD:

           "Cursed is the man who trusts in man

            and makes flesh his strength,

            Whose heart departs from the LORD.

               For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,

            And shall not see when good comes,

            But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,

            In a salt land which is not inhabited.

            "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,

                And whose hope is the LORD.

             For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,

             Which spreads out its roots by the river,

             And will not fear when heat comes;

             But its leaf will be green,

             And will not be anxious in the year of drought,

             Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

             "The heart is deceitful above all things,

             And desperately wicked;

             Who can know it?

             I, the LORD, search the heart,

             I test the mind,

             Even to give every man according to his ways,

             According to the fruit of his doings.