Isaiah 50:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

2 Kings 17:17

And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one 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 the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved; but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

Psalm 44:12

Thou hast sold thy 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

Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed 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 a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.

Isaiah 54:7

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

Isaiah 58:1

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, 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 polluted garment. 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 that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot 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 too went and played the harlot.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; 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

“And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Matthew 18:25

and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and 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?