Isaiah 50:1

Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your moth

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In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

In Context

2Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:39And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not make him to serve as a bondman.

Deuteronomy 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered them up?

2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]. Neither is it in our

Psalms 44:12Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price.

Isaiah 59:1Behold, LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 50:1

In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wilfulness and obstinacy, it being made to appear that God was able and ready to help them if they had been fit for deliverance, ver. 1-3 . II. He by whom God sends produces his commission ( ver. 4 ), alleges his own readiness to submit to all the services and sufferings he was called to in the execution of it ( ver. 5, 6 ), and assures himself that God, who sent him, would stand… Read the whole commentary →

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