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20 How can anyone be stupid enough to trust something that can be burned to ashes?[a] No one can save themselves like that. Don't they realize that the idols they hold in their hands are not really gods?

The Lord Won't Forget His People

21 People of Israel,
you are my servant,
    so remember all of this.
Israel, I created you,
and you are my servant.
    I won't forget you.[b]
22 Turn back to me!
    I have rescued you
and swept away your sins
    as though they were clouds.

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Footnotes

  1. 44.20 How … ashes: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 44.21 I won't forget you: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

20 Such a person feeds on ashes;(A) a deluded(B) heart misleads him;
    he cannot save himself, or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?(C)

21 “Remember(D) these things, Jacob,
    for you, Israel, are my servant.(E)
I have made you, you are my servant;(F)
    Israel, I will not forget you.(G)
22 I have swept away(H) your offenses like a cloud,
    your sins like the morning mist.
Return(I) to me,
    for I have redeemed(J) you.”

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