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 argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have {provoked the builders to anger}.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.

As far as east [is] from west, [so] he has removed far from us [the guilt of] our transgressions.

Let the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered before Yahweh, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

But you, Yahweh, you know {all their plans of assassination against me}. You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from {before you}. But let them be overthrown {before you}. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

As a thick

Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters [the] clouds.

We ourselves have transgressed and rebelled, you have not forgiven.

Return

Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness.

But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called [you] by your name; {you are mine}.

Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim [it] with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this! {Send it forth} to the end of the earth; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!"

So the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come [to] Zion with singing, and everlasting joy [shall be] on their heads. Joy and gladness shall {appear}; sorrow and sighing shall flee away!

"And a redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression," {declares} Yahweh.

A {saying}: 'Look, [if] a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him {and she becomes another man's wife}, will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted [yourself] [with] many lovers, [would] you now return to me?" {declares} Yahweh.

Return to Yahweh your God, Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin.

the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant us

But [the things] which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, [that] his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

General references

And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.

All of his {sins that he committed}, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.

For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins [any] longer."