The *Lord has freely decided to forgive his people’s *sins. He gives them a new start again. He has removed their evil deeds completely out of his mind (see Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 8:12).
• Now they can act as witnesses to all the nations. And their message will be clear, because their behaviour supports their words.
Verse Isaiah 44:22. _I HAVE BLOTTED OUT, AS A THICK CLOUD, THY_ _TRANSGRESSIONS, AND, AS A CLOUD, THY SINS_ - "I have made thy transgressions vanish away like a cloud, and thy sins like a vapour"] _L...
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 (Psalms 51:3, P...
CHAPTER 44 Jehovah Continues to Speak 1. _Spiritual blessings promised by the gift of the Spirit (Isaiah 44:1)_ 2. _Jehovah the First and the Last (Isaiah 44:6)_ 3. _Idolatry rebuked (Isaiah 44:9)_ 4...
ISAIAH 44:6; ISAIAH 44:21. THE INCOMPARABLENESS OF YAHWEH, WHO REDEEMS ISRAEL. Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts (Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *) asserts Hi
I HAVE BLOTTED OUT. See Isaiah 43:25. TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha_ '. REDEEMED. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6....
Isaiah 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 expr...
DISCOURSE: 937 THE WORK OF REDEMPTION A MOTIVE TO CONVERSION Isaiah 44:22. _Return unto me; for I have redeemed thee._ ON occasions of public worship we generally expect a _set_ discourse from _man_....
REMEMBER THESE— This whole exhortation, which is subjoined to the preceding reproof, is founded on this presumption, that, according to the prediction of Moses and the prophets, the Jewish and Israeli...
c. SHOWS THE FRUSTRATION OF FOOLISH COUNSEL TEXT: Isaiah 44:21-28 21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have found thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shal...
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. I HAVE BLOTTED OUT - the debt of thy sin from the account-book in whic...
A CLOUD] which soon disperses....
THE IMPOTENCE OF IDOLS 1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the futile gods of the heathen. 24-28. This...
I HAVE BLOTTED OUT, AS A THICK CLOUD. — Better, _mist._ The Authorised Version half suggests the idea that it is the cloud that hides the sins from view. What is meant is that the sins of Israel are p...
מָחִ֤יתִי כָ † עָב֙ פְּשָׁעֶ֔יךָ וְ כֶ...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE PROMISE OF REDEMPTION Isaiah 44:21-28 What divine comfort there is in these gracious words! Notwithstanding all their wanderings and sins, the Chosen People were Jehovah's elect race. Nothing cou...
The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come to...
_Return from captivity, (Calmet) and from their former errors, Matthew xi. 26. (Haydock)_...
Reader! methinks I can never say enough in calling up your attention, with my own, to observe in what endearing terms the Lord is pleased to recommend his grace, and love, an mercy to his Israel! And...
22._I have blotted out, as a cloud, thy iniquities. _The Lord promises to his people future deliverance; for our hearts cannot be actually raised towards God, if we do not perceive that he is reconcil...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 44 AND 45. Jehovah now reasons with His people whom He had formed from the womb, encourages them, promises them His Spirit. Their children shall spring up as...
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 t...
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. Ver. 22. _I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and,...
_Remember these_ These things, the deep ignorance and stupidity of idolaters. _O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten_ I will not forget nor forsake thee; therefore thou shalt have no need of idols. _I...
THE VANITY OF IDOLATRY OVER AGAINST JEHOVAH...
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, so that they are completely erased, THY TRANSGRESSIONS, even such as meant a severing of the covenant relations, AND, AS A CLOUD, THY SINS, that is, in the same w...
21-28 Return unto me. It is the great concern of those who have backslidden from God, like the Jews of old, to hasten their return to him. The work of redemption wrought for us by Christ, encourages...
I HAVE BLOTTED OUT, AS A THICK CLOUD; as the sun commonly dissolveth, or the wind scattereth, the thickest and blackest cloud, so as there is no remnant nor appearance of it left. _Return from thine i...
Isaiah 44:22 out H4229 (H8804) cloud H5645 transgressions H6588 cloud H6051 sins H2403 Return H7725 (H8798) redeeme
YAHWEH CALLS ON ISRAEL TO REMEMBER THEIR STATUS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THEM (ISAIAH 44:21). Having contemptuously dismissed the gods that men worship Yahweh now calls on His people to recognise how...
REDEEMED Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
Isaiah 44:22 I. We find in these words a wonderful teaching as to the inmost nature of sin. I refer especially here to the two words for sin which are employed here. That translated "transgression"lit...
In this chapter, God encourages his Church by a promise of the visitation of his Spirit. Oh, that it may be fulfilled to us also! Isaiah 44:1. Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I hav...
Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Servant;...
This evening, we will read two Chapter s from Isaiah's prophecy, the forty-fourth and the fifty-fifth, and a few verses from the twenty-third chapter of the second Book of Samuel. May the Lord bless a...
Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant;...
CONTENTS: The promise of the Spirit and the coming restoration. The folly of idolatry. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Cyrus. CONCLUSION: There is no God besides Jehovah. He is infinite and therefore...
Isaiah 44:5. _Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord._ This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter sen...
_I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions_ SIN BLOTTED OUT The meaning of the verse may be--He who offered his sacrifice aright, was as sure that the sin for which he offered it was...
_Remember these, O Jacob and Israel_ GOD’S ISRAEL NOT FORGOTTEN This verse, standing in connection with the following, is a call to Jacob and Israel to return to the Lord. Many are the arguments us...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 44:22 LIKE A CLOUD... LIKE MIST. Before God’s grace, sins fade away to nothing. RETURN TO ME, FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU. Repentance is motivated by grace (see...
THE BLESSEDNESS AND DUTY OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 44:21. _Remember these, O Jacob and Israel, &c._ God contrasts the happy condition of His chosen people with that of the poor blind idolaters whom He...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 44:1 A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION. This section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1; of which it ought to form
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesh...
1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; Acts 3:18; Acts 3:19;...
As a cloud — So that there is no remnant of it left....