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Isa. 50:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Jer. 3:8• ⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (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: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, {i}and her adulteries from between her breasts;{/i} (Hos. 2:2)

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Isa. 52:3• ³For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. (Isa. 52:3)

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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.

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Deut. 24:1‑4• ¹{i}When 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.{/i}
²{i}And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife.{/i}
³{i}And 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;{/i}
⁴{i}her 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.{/i} (Deut. 24:1‑4)

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Jer. 3:1,8• ¹{i}They 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.{/i}
⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (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: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, {i}and her adulteries from between her breasts;{/i}
³lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and cause her to die of thirst.
⁴On her children I will have no mercy; for they are lewd children, (Hos. 2:2‑4)

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Mark 10:4‑12• ⁴And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.
⁵And Jesus answered and said to them, In view of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this commandment.
⁶But from [the] beginning of [the] creation God made them male and female.
⁷For this cause shall a man 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 hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
¹⁰{i}And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.{/i}
¹¹{i}And he says to them,{/i} Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her;
¹²and if a woman put away her husband and marry another, she committeth adultery. (Mark 10:4‑12)

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Ex. 21:7• ⁷{i}And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.{/i} (Ex. 21:7)

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Lev. 25:39• ³⁹And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant: (Lev. 25:39)

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Deut. 32:30• ³⁰{i}How could one chase a thousand,{HR}And two put ten thousand to flight,{HR}Were it not that their Rock had sold them,{HR}And Jehovah had delivered them up?{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:30)

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2 Kings 4:1• ¹Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons as 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, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters {i}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.{/i} (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 peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage. (Esther 7:4)

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Psa. 44:12• ¹²Thou sellest thy people without gain,{HR}And hast not increased by their price. (Psa. 44:12)

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Matt. 18:25• ²⁵But as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and the children and all that he had, and payment to 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 were sold 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; nor 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{i}(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.{/i} (1 Kings 21:25)

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2 Kings 17:17• ¹⁷{i}and 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.{/i} (2 Kings 17:17)

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Jer. 3:8• ⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (Jer. 3:8)

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Jer. 4:18• ¹⁸{i}Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.{/i} (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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