Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
New American Standard Bible
And your sins like a
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.
Holman Bible
and your sins like a mist.
Return to Me,
for I have redeemed you.
International Standard Version
I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've 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.
Amplified
“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud
And your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
I wiped away as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn back to me for I redeemed thee.
King James 2000
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have wiped your transgressions out like cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!"
Modern King James verseion
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for thine offenses, I drive them away like the clouds, and thy sins as the mist. Turn ye again unto me, and I will deliver thee.
NET Bible
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."
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me, I have wiped out, As with a thick cloud, thy transgressions, And as with a broad cloud, thy sins, - Return unto me, for I have redeemed thee.
Webster
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins: return to 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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Clouds » Illustrative » Of sins of men
God's Promises » Of mercy » Of pardon
Jews, the » Promises respecting » Pardon of sin
Pardon » Should lead to » Returning to God
Pardon » Expressed by » Blotting out transgression
Topics
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Machah
Chatta'ah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 44:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Remembers Israel
21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou are my servant. I have formed thee. Thou are my servant, O Israel, thou shall not be forgotten by me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee. 23 Sing, O ye heavens, for LORD has done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein. For LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
1 Corinthians 6:20
for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.
Psalm 51:1
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 51:9
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Isaiah 43:1
But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine.
Isaiah 48:20
Go ye forth from Babylon. Flee ye from the Chaldeans. With a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth. Say ye, LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
1 Peter 1:18-19
Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,
Nehemiah 4:5
and do not cover their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.
Job 37:11
Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,
Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 109:14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 51:11
And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy, [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 59:20-21
And he who redeems will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says LORD.
Jeremiah 18:23
Yet, LORD, thou know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah 33:8
And I 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 against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.
Lamentations 3:42-44
We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
Hosea 14:1-4
O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.
Luke 1:73-74
the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to give to us,
Acts 3:18-19
But this way God fulfilled what things were foretold, through the mouth of all his prophets, the Christ was to endure.
Titus 2:12-14
disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.