Focused Passage
The LORD Who Chose Jacob, Pours Out His Spirit, Blots Out Sin, and Names Cyrus
Isaiah 44 moves from comfort to Jacob-Israel as the LORD’s chosen servant, to the promise of water on dry ground and the Spirit poured out on offspring, to the LORD’s declaration that He is the first and the last with no God besides Him, to an extended satire exposing the foolishness of idol-making, to the call for Israel to remember that the LORD has redeemed them and swept away their sins, and finally to the LORD’s announcement that He frustrates false signs, confirms His servants’ words, restores Jerusalem, dries up the deep, and names Cyrus as His shepherd who will fulfill His pleasure.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
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.
22 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.
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