Isaiah 50:1

Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:39If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:

Deuteronomy 32:30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Nehemiah 5:5And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

Psalms 44:12Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten : thou hast scattered us among the nations.

Isaiah 59:1Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is 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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