Isaiah 50:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the  Lord had given them up?

Jeremiah 3:8

I  observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.  Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

Matthew 18:25

Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters are already enslaved,  but we are powerless  because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the  Lord  says: ‘You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without silver.’

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!

Jeremiah 3:1

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   – can you return to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration.

2 Kings 17:17

They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire  , and practised divination and interpreted omens.  They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angered him.

Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold  to destruction, death, and annihilation.  If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,  I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.’

1 Kings 21:25

Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.

Exodus 21:7

‘When a man sells his daughter as a concubine,  she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

Leviticus 25:39

‘If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you,  you must not force him to do slave labour.

Isaiah 1:28

At the same time both rebels and sinners will be broken, and those who abandon the  Lord will perish.

Isaiah 27:8

You disputed with Israel by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with his severe storm on the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 46:8

‘Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth  when she is rejected,’ says your God.

Isaiah 54:7

‘I deserted you for a brief moment, but I will take you back with abundant compassion.

Isaiah 58:1

‘Cry out loudly, don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted   garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities  carry us away like the wind.

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother.