Isaiah 44:22

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Summary

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

Blotted

As a thick

Job 37:11

Lamentations 3:42

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General references

Jeremiah 33:8

Ezekiel 33:16

Hebrews 8:12

Bible References

Blotted

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.

So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

As a thick

The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

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Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

General references

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.