Fade Like A Leaf

Isaiah 64:6-7 (ESV)

6 We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

We all fade like a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

7 There is no one who calls upon your name,

who rouses himself to take hold of you;

for you have hidden your face from us,

and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

Israel is like a leaf of a tree that dies and is blown away. Sin has caused the green leaves of the fig tree to shrivel, fall, and be carried away like chaff in the wind. 

They will be restored as leaves on the tree of life, made green all year, and will produce the fruit for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:1-2)