Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you⌃ are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to listen? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:39And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.

Deuteronomy 32:30How + 32:30 Gr. shall. should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

2 Kings 4:1And one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisaie, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord: and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his servants.

Nehemiah 5:5And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles.

Psalms 44:12And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your + 44:12 Gr. face. favor. 1

Isaiah 59:1Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not 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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