Isaiah 44:22
What does Isaiah 44:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 44:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I have blotted out, as <FI>by<Fi> a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as <FI>by<Fi> a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Context
v.21Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
v.22This passage
v.23Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 59:20
And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.
- Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
- Jeremiah 33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
- Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
- Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- 1 Peter 1:18
knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
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