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Isaiah 44:22

Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins,.... Sins and transgressions are compared to clouds, for the number of them, they being many as the fleeting clouds of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I have blotted out - The word used here (מחח mâchâh), means properly “to wipe away,” and is often applied to sins, as if the account was wiped off, or as we express it, blotted out (Psa 51:3, Psa…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 44:21-28

In these verses we have,

I. The duty which Jacob and Israel, now in captivity, were called to, that they might be qualified and prepared for the deliverance designed them. Our first care must be to…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isaiah 44:6-23

Isa 44:6-23. The Reality of Jehovah's Godhead, evinced by His Predictions, and contrasted with the manifold absurdities of Idolatry

The passage, which is merely a restatement of ideas already…