In Context

19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, |I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?|

20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, |Isn't there a lie in my right hand?|

21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: |I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Isaiah 44:22 in Other Translations