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Isaiah 50

Isa. 50:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, Where is the bill
cepher (Hebrew #5612)
from 5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book
KJV usage: bill, book, evidence, X learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.
Pronounce: say'-fer
Origin: or (feminine) ciphrah (Psa. 56:8 (9)) {sif-raw'}
of your mother’s
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
divorcement
kriythuwth (Hebrew #3748)
a cutting (of the matrimonial bond), i.e. divorce
KJV usage: divorce(-ment).
Pronounce: ker-ee-thooth'
Origin: from 3772
b, whom I have put away
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
? or which of my creditors
nashah (Hebrew #5383)
to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest
KJV usage: creditor, exact, extortioner, lend, usurer, lend on (taker on) usury.
Pronounce: naw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5382, in the sense of 5378)
is it to whom I have sold
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
you? Behold, for your iniquities
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
have ye sold
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
yourselvesd, and for your transgressions
pesha` (Hebrew #6588)
a revolt (national, moral or religious)
KJV usage: rebellion, sin, transgression, trespass.
Pronounce: peh'-shah
Origin: from 6586
is your mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
put away
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Jer. 3:8• 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also. (Jer. 3:8)
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Hos. 2:2• 2Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; (Hos. 2:2)
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Isa. 52:3• 3For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought, and ye shall be redeemed without money. (Isa. 52:3)

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Divorce,
Mother,
Transgression

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-4:  Christ shews that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save;
5-6:  by his obedience in that work;
7-9:  and by his confidence in that assistance.
10-11:  An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves.
the bill.
Deut. 24:1‑4• 1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house.
 2And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife.
 3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife;
 4her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (Deut. 24:1‑4)
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Jer. 3:1,8• 1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also. (Jer. 3:1,8)
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Hos. 2:2‑4• 2Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
 3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her as a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms. (Hos. 2:2‑4)
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Mark 10:4‑12• 4And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.
 5And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;
 6but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 7For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
 8and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.
 9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
 10And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.
 11And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.
 12And if a woman put away her husband and shall marry another, she commits adultery. (Mark 10:4‑12)
or which.
Ex. 21:7• 7And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out. (Ex. 21:7)
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Lev. 25:39• 39And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: (Lev. 25:39)
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Deut. 32:30• 30How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up? (Deut. 32:30)
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2 Kings 4:1• 1And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen. (2 Kings 4:1)
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Neh. 5:5• 5yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and behold, we must bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in the power of our hand to redeem them, for other men have our fields and our vineyards. (Neh. 5:5)
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Esther 7:4• 4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage. (Esther 7:4)
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Psa. 44:12• 12Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price; (Psa. 44:12)
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Matt. 18:25• 25But he not having anything to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and everything that he had, and that payment should be made. (Matt. 18:25)
Behold.Husbands often sent bills of divorcement to their wives on slight occasions; and fathers, oppressed with debt, sold their children till the year of release.
But this, saith God, cannot be my case:
I am not governed by any such motives, nor am I urged by any such necessity.
Your captivity and afflictions are the fruits of your own folly and wickedness.for your iniquities.
Isa. 52:3• 3For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought, and ye shall be redeemed without money. (Isa. 52:3)
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Isa. 59:1‑2• 1Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;
 2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he doth not hear. (Isa. 59:1‑2)
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1 Kings 21:25• 25(Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife urging him on. (1 Kings 21:25)
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2 Kings 17:17• 17and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. (2 Kings 17:17)
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Jer. 3:8• 8And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also. (Jer. 3:8)
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Jer. 4:18• 18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart. (Jer. 4:18)
• In verse 1 of chapter 50 we return to the existing state of the people, estranged from their God. This was not from God’s side but from theirs. If He had issued a bill of divorcement against them, it would have been permanent and they would have been “cast away” (Rom. 11:1), as to which Paul says, “God forbid.” (“Isaiah 50” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.