Rickard:
The rags thing brought this to me:
Isaiah 64:4-6 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.
You meet him that works righteousness, and rejoices him that remembers you in your ways; in righteousness there is continuance, and such shall be saved.
But we have sinned; we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.