Isaiah 50:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

Indeed, no one gave himself up to the doing of evil in the sight of the Lord as did Ahab, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

2 Kings 17:17

They immolated their sons and daughters by fire. They practiced augury and divination. They surrendered themselves to doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him.

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman, the widow of one of the guild prophets, cried out to Elisha: “My husband, your servant, is dead. You know that he revered the Lord, yet now his creditor has come to take my two children into servitude.”

Nehemiah 5:5

And though these are our own kindred, and our children are as good as theirs, we have had to reduce our sons and daughters to slavery, and violence has been done to some of our daughters! Yet we can do nothing about it, for our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Psalm 44:12

You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.

Exodus 21:7

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do.

Isaiah 1:28

Rebels and sinners together shall be crushed, those who desert the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 27:8

Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it, carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this and be firm, take it to heart, you rebels;

Isaiah 52:3

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

Isaiah 54:6

The Lord calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says your God.

Isaiah 54:7

For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Proclaim to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

There are none who call upon your name, none who rouse themselves to take hold of you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our crimes.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will stumble with you at night; I will make an end of your mother.

Leviticus 25:39

When your kindred with you, having been so reduced to poverty, sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

Matthew 18:25

Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”