Isaiah 50:1
This is what the Lord says: Where's your mother's divorce certificate I gave her when I sent her away? Which of my creditors did I sell you to? Now look! You were sold because of your sins, and your mother was sent away because of your wrongdoing.
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Leviticus 25:39If any of your people become poor and have to sell themselves to work for you, don't force them to work as a slave.
Deuteronomy 32:30How on earth could one man chase after a thousand, or two make ten thousand run away, unless their Rock of protection had sold them, unless the Lord had surrendered them?
2 Kings 4:1The wife of one of the sons of the prophets appealed to Elisha, “My husband, your servant, is dead, and you know that he honored the Lord. But now to pay his debts his creditor is coming to take my two sons as his slaves!”
Nehemiah 5:5Even though we are the same people as our creditors and though our children are the same as their children, yet we going to have to turn our sons and daughters into slaves. In fact some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we can't do anything about it, because our fields and our vineyards are now owned by others.”
Psalms 44:12You have sold your own people for next to nothing, making no profit on the sale.
Isaiah 59:1Don't you see? The Lord's arm isn't too weak to save you, and his ear isn't too deaf to hear you!
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 →