Isaiah 50:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:17

And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Nehemiah 5:5

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Esther 7:4

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Psalm 44:12

You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

Exodus 21:7

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

Isaiah 1:28

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

Isaiah 27:8

Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Isaiah 46:8

Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.

Isaiah 52:3

For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

Isaiah 54:7

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

Isaiah 58:1

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 3:1

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

Hosea 4:5

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

Leviticus 25:39

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

Matthew 18:25

So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?