Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“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.”

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

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מחה 
Machah 
Usage: 36

as a thick cloud
עב 
`ab 
Usage: 32

פּשׁע 
Pesha` 
Usage: 93

and, as a cloud
ענן 
`anan 
Usage: 87

חטּאת חטּאה 
Chatta'ah 
Usage: 294

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Yahweh Remembers Israel

21 Jehovah says: Israel, remember this! Remember that you are my servant. I created you to be my servant, and I will never forget you. 22 “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.”
23 Shout for joy, you heavens! Shout, deep places of the earth! Shout for joy, mountains, and every tree of the forest! Jehovah has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.

Cross References

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who is going to wipe away your rebellious actions for my own sake. I will not remember your sins anymore.

1 Corinthians 6:20

You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

Psalm 51:1

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:9

Hide your face (turn away) from my sins, and wipe out (erase) all that I have done wrong.

Isaiah 43:1

Jehovah created Jacob and formed Israel. Jehovah says: Do not be afraid for I have reclaimed you. I have called you by my name. You are mine.

Isaiah 48:20

Get out of Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Shout for joy as you tell it and announce it. Shout it out to the ends of the earth. Say: Jehovah has reclaimed his servant Jacob.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

Nehemiah 4:5

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

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture and disperses with lighting.

Psalm 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. (as far as the sunrise is from the sunset) (farther then one could ever travel)

Psalm 109:14

Let Jehovah remember the guilt of his ancestors and not wipe out his mother's sin.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.

Isaiah 1:27

Jehovah's justice will pardon Zion. Those who return will be pardoned by Jehovah's righteousness.

Isaiah 51:11

Jehovah's ransomed will return. They will enter Zion with singing! Everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Isaiah 59:20-21

A Savior will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from sin, declares Jehovah.

Jeremiah 3:1

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 3:12-14

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet You, O Jehovah, know all their deadly designs against me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin from your sight. But may they be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger!

Jeremiah 33:8

I will cleanse them from all the sins that they have committed against me. I will forgive them for all the sins that they have committed against me and for rebelling against me.

Lamentations 3:42-44

For we have done wrong. We have rebelled against your law. We have not received your forgiveness.

Hosea 14:1-4

Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Luke 1:73-74

It was the oath he spoke to Abraham our father.

Acts 3:18-19

The things God fulfilled he announced beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

Titus 2:12-14

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).

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