Isaiah 44:22
Good News Translation
I have swept your sins away like a cloud. Come back to me; I am the one who saves you."

New Revised Standard Version
I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Contemporary English Version
Turn back to me! I have rescued you and swept away your sins as though they were clouds.

New American Bible
I have brushed away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like a mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

blotted

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Nehemiah 4:5 Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Psalm 51:1,9 Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. . . .

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

Psalm 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Jeremiah 18:23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.

Acts 3:19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

as a thick

Job 37:11 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:

Lamentations 3:42-44 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. . . .

return

Isaiah 1:27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

Isaiah 43:1 And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine.

Isaiah 48:20 Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 51:11 And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 59:20,21 And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 3:1,12-14 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. . . .

Hosea 14:1-4 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. . . .

Luke 1:73,74 The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us. . . .

Acts 3:18,19 But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

Titus 2:12-14 Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world, . . .

1 Peter 1:18,19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

Context
Jerusalem to Be Restored
21Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not. 22I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.23Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.…
Cross References
Acts 3:19
Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

1 Corinthians 6:20
For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

1 Peter 1:18
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

2 Chronicles 6:21
And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.

Psalm 51:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Psalm 51:9
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Isaiah 1:18
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 31:6
Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 33:24
Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.

Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 43:1
And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine.

Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:20
Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Jeremiah 33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.

Zechariah 1:3
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 44:21
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