Isaiah 50:1

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thus says the Lord: What is this bill of divorce for your mother, by which I have dismissed her? Or who is my creditor, to whom I have sold you? Behold, you were sold by your iniquities, and I have dismissed your mother for your wickedness.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

And so, there was no other person similar to Ahab, who was sold so that he did evil in the sight of the Lord. For his wife, Jezebel, urged him on.

2 Kings 17:17

And they consecrated their sons and their daughters through fire. And they devoted themselves to divinations and soothsaying. And they delivered themselves into the doing of evil before the Lord, so that they provoked him.

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, from the wives of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying: "My husband, your servant, is dead. And you know that your servant was one who fears the Lord. And behold, a creditor has arrived, so that he may take away my two sons to serve him."

Nehemiah 5:5

"And now, as is the flesh of our brothers, so is our flesh; and as are their sons, so also are our sons. Behold, we have subjugated our sons and our daughters into servitude, and some of our daughters are slaves, nor do we have the ability to redeem them, for others possess our fields and our vineyards."

Esther 7:4

Then Esther's maids and eunuchs went in and informed her. When she heard it, she was shocked, and she sent a garment to clothe him and to take away the sackcloth, but he would not accept it.

Psalm 44:12

And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him.

Exodus 21:7

If anyone sells his daughter to be a servant, she shall not depart as a female servant is accustomed to go out.

Isaiah 1:28

And he shall crush the accursed and sinners together. And those who have abandoned the Lord will be consumed.

Isaiah 27:8

You will judge this by comparing one measure to another, when he has been cast out. He has decided this, by his stern spirit, for the day of heat.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this, and be confounded. Return, you transgressors, to the heart.

Isaiah 52:3

For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has called you, like a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and like a wife rejected in her youth, said your God.

Isaiah 54:7

For a brief moment, I have forsaken you, and with great pities, I will gather you.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

Jeremiah 3:1

"It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Jeremiah 3:8

that because the apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had dismissed her and had given her a bill of divorce. Yet her deceitful sister Judah was not afraid. But she, too, went and committed fornication herself.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your thoughts have brought these things upon you. This is your own wickedness. And it is bitter, because it has touched your heart.

Hosea 4:5

And you will be ruined on this day, and now the prophet will be ruined with you. In the night, I have made your mother to be silent.

Leviticus 25:39

If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

Matthew 18:25

But since he did not have any way to repay it, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children, and all that he had, in order to repay it.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them?