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 Living Translation (NLT)I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.”

Context of Isaiah 44:22

20He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” 21“Remember these, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me! I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.” 23Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel. 24Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth 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 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
• Isaiah 43:25“I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
• Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.
• Psalms 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.
• 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 let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
• Jeremiah 18:23Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel Which is against me, to slay me. Provide no atonement for their iniquity, Nor blot out their sin from Your sight; But let them be overthrown before You. Deal thus with them In the time of Your anger.
• Jeremiah 33:8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.
• Acts 3:19Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
• Job 37:11Also with moisture He saturates the thick clouds; He scatters His bright clouds.
• Lamentations 3:42We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
• Isaiah 1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her penitents with righteousness.
• Isaiah 43:1But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.
• Isaiah 48:20Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
• Isaiah 51:11So the ransomed of the Lord shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isaiah 59:20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” 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