Isaiah 50:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

(Indeed, there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

2 Kings 17:17

They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of 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 children as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

Psalm 44:12

You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.

Exodus 21:7

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

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 27:8

By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them; with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me.

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this and consider; recall it to mind, you 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 like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off, says your God.

Isaiah 54:7

For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

Isaiah 58:1

Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”

Hosea 4:5

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

Leviticus 25:39

“If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves.

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?