Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you! 22 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." 23 Shout for joy, O sky, for the Lord intervenes; shout out, you subterranean regions of the earth. O mountains, give a joyful shout; you too, O forest and all your trees! For the Lord protects Jacob; he reveals his splendor through Israel.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 43:25
I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Psalm 51:1
For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
Psalm 51:9
Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!
Isaiah 43:1
Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.
Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! Say, 'The Lord protects his servant Jacob.
1 Peter 1:18-19
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,
Nehemiah 4:5
Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended the builders!
Job 37:11
He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
Psalm 103:12
As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.
Psalm 109:14
May his ancestors' sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother's sin not be forgotten!
Isaiah 1:18
Come, let's consider your options," says the Lord. "Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
Isaiah 1:27
Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.
Isaiah 51:11
Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
Isaiah 55:7
The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
Isaiah 59:20-21
"A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:1
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:12-14
"Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them, 'Come back to me, wayward Israel,' says the Lord. 'I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,' says the Lord. 'I will not be angry with you forever.
Jeremiah 18:23
But you, Lord, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!
Jeremiah 33:8
I will purify them from all the sin that they committed against me. I will forgive all their sins which they committed in rebelling against me.
Lamentations 3:42-44
"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven."
Hosea 14:1-4
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
Luke 1:73-74
the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants
Acts 3:18-19
But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets -- that his Christ would suffer -- he has fulfilled in this way.
Titus 2:12-14
It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,