Isaiah 44:22

Forgiveness Repentance Salvation Sin

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

²¹ Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

²³ Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

²⁴ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
KJV: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
WEB: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
ASV: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
DARBY: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
BLB: I have blotted out like a cloud your transgressions, and like a mist your sins; return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

ÅB: Jeg utsletter dine overtredelser som en tåke og dine synder som en sky; vend om til meg, for jeg gjenløser deg!
OTB: Jeg har utslettet dine overtredelser som en sky, og dine synder som en tåke. Vend tilbake til meg, for jeg har gjenløst deg."
B1930: Jeg utsletter dine overtredelser som en tåke og dine synder som en sky; vend om til mig, for jeg gjenløser dig!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
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1 Corinthians 6:20
you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
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Acts 3:18–19
But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
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Isaiah 43:1
Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
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1 Peter 1:18–19
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
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Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
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Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
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Titus 2:12–14
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
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