Isaiah 50:1

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

But there were none compared to Ahab, who sold himself to evil deeds in the sight of the Lord, which Jezebel his wife stirred up.

2 Kings 17:17

They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and omens, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to anger Him.

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen. Our children are like their children, but we are subjugating our sons and our daughters as servants. Behold, some of our daughters are in bondage already, and we are powerless to do anything because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If only we had been sold as male and female slaves, I could have kept quiet, for that distress would not be sufficient to trouble the king.”

Psalm 44:12

You sell Your people for a low price, and do not increase Your wealth by their sale.

Exodus 21:7

If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

Isaiah 1:28

But the destruction of the transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 27:8

You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away. He has expelled them on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it to mind again, O transgressors.

Isaiah 52:3

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

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth when you were refused, says your God.

Isaiah 54:7

For a small moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I will gather you.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

But we all are as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

I saw that for all the adulteries of backsliding Israel, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way and your deeds have procured these things to you. This is your wickedness. How bitter it is! How it touches your heart!”

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet also will stumble with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

Leviticus 25:39

If your brother who dwells near you becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant.

Matthew 18:25

But since he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold with his wife, their children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?