Isaiah 44:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מָחִ֤יתִי כָעָב֙ פְּשָׁעֶ֔יךָ וְכֶעָנָ֖ן חַטֹּאותֶ֑יךָ שׁוּבָ֥ה אֵלַ֖י כִּ֥י גְאַלְתִּֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

māḥîṯî ḵāʿāḇ pəšāʿeḵā wəḵeʿānān ḥaṭṭôʾṯeḵā šûḇāh ʾēlay kî ḡəʾaltîḵā

Grammar Details

*māḥîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have wiped out
*ḵāʿāḇ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a thick cloud
*pəšāʿeḵā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your transgressions
*wəḵeʿānān*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular - and like a cloud
*ḥaṭṭôʾṯeḵā*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sins
*šûḇāh*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - return
*ʾēlay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ḡəʾaltîḵā*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have redeemed you

Word Meanings

*māḥîṯî*: I have wiped out/I have blotted out/I have erased
*ʿāḇ*: thick cloud/dark cloud/cloud mass
*pəšāʿeḵā*: your transgressions/your rebellions/your sins
*ʿānān*: cloud/cloudiness
*ḥaṭṭôʾṯeḵā*: your sins/your offenses/your wrongs
*šûḇāh*: return/come back/turn
*ḡəʾaltîḵā*: I have redeemed you/I have ransomed you/I have rescued you

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Referenced Verses

Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.
1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
Ps 51:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Ps 51:9 : 9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.
Isa 48:20 : 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, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Isa 43:1 : 1 But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
1 Pet 1:18-19 : 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; 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, {G299} even the blood of Christ:
Isa 51:11 : 11 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa 59:20-21 : 20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah. 21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.
Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 3:12-14 : 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep [anger] for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. 14 Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jer 18:23 : 23 Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
Jer 33:8 : 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.
Lam 3:42-44 : 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Hos 14:1-4 : 1 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips. 3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
Luke 1:73-74 : 73 The oath which he spake unto Abraham our father, 74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear,
Acts 3:18-19 : 18 But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he {G4137} thus fulfilled. 19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
Ps 103:12 : 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Ps 109:14 : 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:27 : 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Titus 2:12-14 : 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
Neh 4:5 : 5 and cover not 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 : 11 Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

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