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 misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ 21Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you! I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.” 23Shout for joy, O sky, for the Lord intervenes; shout out, you subterranean regions of the earth. O mountains, give a joyful shout; you too, O forest and all your trees! For the Lord protects Jacob; he reveals his splendor through Israel. 24This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

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 1:18Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
• Isaiah 43:25I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.
• Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended the builders!
• Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
• Psalms 103:12As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.
• Psalms 109:14May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!
• Jeremiah 18:23But you, Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!
• Jeremiah 33:8I will purify them from all the sin that they committed against me. I will forgive all their sins which they committed in rebelling against me.
• Acts 3:19Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,
• Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
• Lamentations 3:42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek)
• Isaiah 1:27Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.
• Isaiah 43:1Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.
• Isaiah 48:20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! Say, ‘The Lord protects his servant Jacob.
• Isaiah 51:11Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
• Isaiah 59:20“A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the Lord.

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