...servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 44:22:1 have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,...thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 44:23: Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth...

...and cloudie: The combination of these adjectives in a context of forgiveness recalls Isaiah xliv 22: 'I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,...cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.'The fact that these are God's words, and in H.'s lyric the claim is made with some bravado by...

...But, blessed be His grace, that scripture, in these flying fits, would call, as running after me, / have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions...thy sins : return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee. Isaiah xliv. 22. This, I say, would come in upon my mind, when I was fleeing from the face of God ;...

...His grace, that scripture, in these flying fits, would call, as running after me, J have blotted cut, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions ; and as a cloud,...thy sins : return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee. Isaiah xliv. 22. This, I say, would come in upon my mind, when I was fleeing from the face of God ;...