Isaiah 44:22

Isaiah 44:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
• New International Version (NIV)I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

Context of Isaiah 44:22

20He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot rescue himself, or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?” 21Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; Israel, you will never be forgotten by me. I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. 23Rejoice, heavens, for the Lord has acted; shout, depths of the earth. Break out into singing, mountains, forest, and every tree in it. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and glorifies himself through Israel. 24This is what the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says: I am the Lord, who made everything; who stretched out the heavens by myself; who alone spread out the earth;

Isaiah 44:22 word by word

מָחִ֤יתִי כָעָב֙ פְּשָׁעֶ֔יךָ וְכֶעָנָ֖ן חַטֹּאותֶ֑יךָ שׁוּבָ֥ה אֵלַ֖י כִּ֥י גְאַלְתִּֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have blotted outמָחָהmâchâh · to wipeH4229
• as a thick cloudעָב‛âb · cloudH5645
• thy transgressionsפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588
• and, as a cloudעָנָן‛ânân · cloudH6051
• thy sinsחַטָּאתchaţţâ'âh chaţţâ'th · sinH2403
• returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• unto me; for I have redeemedגָּאַלgâ'al · to redeem: redeemH1350

Cross-references for Isaiah 44:22

• Isaiah 1:18“Come, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.
• Isaiah 43:25“I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more.
• Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from your sight, because they have angered the builders.
• Psalms 51:1Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love; according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.
• Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
• Psalms 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.
• Jeremiah 18:23But you, Lord, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their iniquity; do not blot out their sin before you. Let them be forced to stumble before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
• Jeremiah 33:8I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me, and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me.
• Acts 3:19Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out,
• Job 37:11He saturates clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
• Lamentations 3:42“We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven.
• Isaiah 1:27Zion will be redeemed by justice, those who repent, by righteousness.
• Isaiah 43:1Now this is what the Lord says — the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel — “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
• Isaiah 48:20Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with a shout of joy, proclaim this, let it go out to the end of the earth; announce, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
• Isaiah 51:11And the ransomed of the Lord will return and come to Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
• Isaiah 59:20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Commentaries on Isaiah 44:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins "I have made thy transgressions vanish away like a cloud, and thy sins like a vapor" - Longinus admired the sublimity of the sentiment, as well as the harmony of the numbers, in the following sentence of Demosthenes: ͅ ̔ . "This decree made the danger then hanging over the city pass away like a cloud." Probably Isaiah alludes here to the smoke rising up from the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22I have blotted out - The word used here (מחח mâchâh ), means properly “to wipe away,” and is often applied to sins, as if the account was wiped off, or as we express it, blotted out (Psalm 51:3, Psalm 51:11; see the note at Isaiah 43:25). The phrase, to blot out sins like a cloud,‘ however, is unusual, and the idea not very obvious. The true idea would be expressed by rendering it, I have made them to vanish as a thick cloud;‘ and the sense is, as the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-28Verses 21-28 Return unto me. It is the great concern of those who have backslidden from God, like the Jews of old, to hasten their return to him. The work of redemption wrought for us by Christ, encourages to hope for all blessings from him. Our transgressions and our sins are as a thick cloud between heaven and earth: sins separate between us and God; they threaten a storm of wrath. When God pardons sin, he blots out, he dispels this cloud, this thick…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-22The Lord promised to forgive the sins of Israel.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. blotted out--the debt of thy sin from the account-book in which it was entered (Ex 32:32, 33; Re 20:12). as a thick cloud--scattered away by the wind (Psa 103:12). as a cloud--a descending gradation. Not only the "thick cloud" of the heavier "transgressions," but the "cloud" ("vapor" [Lowth], not so dense, but covering the sky as a mist) of the countless "sins." These latter, though not thought much of by man, need, as much as the former, to be…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 44

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings