Isaiah 44:22 “I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins lik…”

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

World English Bible

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

American Standard Version

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue put away thy transgressions like a cloude, and thy sinnes, as a mist: turne vnto me, for I haue redeemed thee.

Darby Translation

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Young's Literal Translation

I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as [by] a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.

Bible in Basic English

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

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Cross references

“blotted”

Isaiah 43:25 Psalm 103:12 Jeremiah 33:8 Psalm 51:1 Psalm 51:9 Isaiah 1:18

Isaiah 43:25 · BSB

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Psalm 103:12 · BSB

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Jeremiah 33:8 · BSB

And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

Psalm 51:1 · BSB

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:9 · BSB

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

Isaiah 1:18 · BSB

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

“as a thick”

Job 37:11 Lamentations 3:42–44

Job 37:11 · BSB

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Lamentations 3:42–44 · BSB

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

“return”

1 Corinthians 6:20 Isaiah 43:1 Titus 2:12–14 Isaiah 48:20 Jeremiah 3:12–14 Isaiah 1:27

1 Corinthians 6:20 · BSB

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Isaiah 43:1 · BSB

But now, this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Titus 2:12–14 · BSB

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Isaiah 48:20 · BSB

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

Jeremiah 3:12–14 · BSB

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.

Isaiah 1:27 · BSB

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

Also

Isaiah 55:7

Isaiah 55:7 · BSB

Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

23Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

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