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Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/nlt/isaiah/50.htm">New Living Translation</a> This is what the LORD says: “Was your mother sent away because I divorced her? Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? No, you were sold because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins. <a href="/esv/isaiah/50.htm">English Standard Version</a> Thus says the LORD: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent 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 sent away. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/50.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/50.htm">King James Bible</a> Thus saith the LORD, 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/50.htm">New King James Version</a> Thus says the LORD: “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/50.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your wrongdoings, And for your wrongful acts your mother was sent away. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/50.htm">NASB 1995</a> Thus says the LORD, &#8220Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/50.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Thus says the LORD, “Where is the certificate of divorce, By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/50.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/amp/isaiah/50.htm">Amplified Bible</a> The LORD declares this; “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away, [O Israel]? Or to which one of My creditors did I sell you [as slaves]? In fact, You were sold for your wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing], And for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/csb/isaiah/50.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/50.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: Where is your mother&#8217s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or who were My creditors that I sold you to? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away because of your transgressions. <a href="/asv/isaiah/50.htm">American Standard Version</a> Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. <a href="/cev/isaiah/50.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> The LORD says, "Children, I didn't divorce your mother or sell you to pay debts; I divorced her and sold you because of your sins. <a href="/erv/isaiah/50.htm">English Revised Version</a> Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/50.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> This is what the LORD says: Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/50.htm">Good News Translation</a> The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes. <a href="/isv/isaiah/50.htm">International Standard Version</a> This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look! It's because of your sins that you were sold, and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away. <a href="/msb/isaiah/50.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: ?Where is your mother?s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/net/isaiah/50.htm">NET Bible</a> This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/50.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Thus says the LORD, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/50.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Thus saith the LORD, 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. <a href="/web/isaiah/50.htm">World English Bible</a> Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/50.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Thus said YHWH: “Where [is] this—the bill of your mother’s divorce, "" Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you have been sold for your iniquities, "" And for your transgressions "" Your mother has been sent away. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/50.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Thus said Jehovah: 'Where is this -- the bill of your mother's divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away. <a href="/slt/isaiah/50.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/50.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> THUS saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/50.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Thus says the Lord: What is this bill of divorce for your mother, by which I have dismissed her? Or who is my creditor, to whom I have sold you? Behold, you were sold by your iniquities, and I have dismissed your mother for your wickedness. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/50.htm">New American Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/50.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/50.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> THUS says the LORD: Where is the bill of the divorcement of your mother, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/50.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: “What is the writing of divorce by which I divorced your mother, or who is your creditor to whom I sold you? Behold, you have been sold by your sins, and by your evil your mother is divorced<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/50.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, Wherewith I have put her away? Or which of My creditors is it To whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, And for your transgressions was your mother put away. <a href="/sep/isaiah/50.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/50-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=11234" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/50.htm">Israel's Sin</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">This is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says:</a> <a href="/hebrew/335.htm" title="335: ’ê (Interrog) -- Where?. Perhaps from 'aiyn; where? Hence how?.">“Where</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: zeh (Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that."></a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">is your mother’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/5612.htm" title="5612: sê·p̄er (N-msc) -- A missive, document, writing, book. Or ciphrah; from caphar; properly, writing; by implication, a book.">certificate</a> <a href="/hebrew/3748.htm" title="3748: kə·rî·ṯūṯ (N-fsc) -- Divorcement. From karath; a cutting, i.e. Divorce.">of divorce</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">with which</a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: šil·laḥ·tî·hā (V-Piel-Perf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">I sent her away?</a> <a href="/hebrew/176.htm" title="176: ’ōw (Conj) -- Or. Presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of -av; short for 'avvah; desire; hence or, also if.">Or</a> <a href="/hebrew/4310.htm" title="4310: mî (Interrog) -- An interrogative pronoun of persons, as mah is of things, who?; also whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.">to which</a> <a href="/hebrew/5383.htm" title="5383: min·nō·wō·šay (Prep-m:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc:: 1cs) -- To lend, become a creditor. A primitive root; to lend or borrow on security or interest.">of My creditors</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4376.htm" title="4376: mā·ḵar·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To sell. A primitive root; to sell, literally, or figuratively.">did I sell you?</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ·ḵem (DirObjM:: 2mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hên (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if.">Look,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4376.htm" title="4376: nim·kar·tem (V-Nifal-Perf-2mp) -- To sell. A primitive root; to sell, literally, or figuratively.">you were sold</a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ba·‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·ḵem (Prep-b:: N-cpc:: 2mp) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">for your iniquities,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6588.htm" title="6588: ū·ḇə·p̄iš·‘ê·ḵem (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Transgression. From pasha'; a revolt.">and for your transgressions</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">your mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: šul·lə·ḥāh (V-Pual-Perf-3fs) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">was sent away.</a> 2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8</a> She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2</a> Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1</a> If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. <a href="/jeremiah/2-19.htm">Jeremiah 2:19</a> Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts. <a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Ezekiel 16:35-37</a> Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! / This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, / therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked. <a href="/hosea/1-9.htm">Hosea 1:9</a> And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God. <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a> “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. <a href="/ezekiel/23-4.htm">Ezekiel 23:4</a> The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12</a> My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. <a href="/malachi/2-16.htm">Malachi 2:16</a> “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. <a href="/matthew/19-8.htm">Matthew 19:8</a> Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart. But it was not this way from the beginning. <a href="/mark/10-4.htm">Mark 10:4-5</a> They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.” / But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. <a href="/romans/7-2.htm">Romans 7:2-3</a> For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">1 Corinthians 7:10-11</a> To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. <a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Matthew 5:31-32</a> It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ / But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Thus said the LORD, 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, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.the bill<a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1-5</a> When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house… <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1,8</a> 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? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2-4</a> Plead 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, and her adulteries from between her breasts; … or which<a href="/exodus/21-7.htm">Exodus 21:7</a> And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.<a href="/leviticus/25-39.htm">Leviticus 25:39</a> And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:<a href="/deuteronomy/32-30.htm">Deuteronomy 32:30</a> How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?behold.<a href="/isaiah/52-3.htm">Isaiah 52:3</a> For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.<a href="/isaiah/59-1.htm">Isaiah 59:1,2</a> Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: … <a href="/1_kings/21-25.htm">1 Kings 21:25</a> But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Bill</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Certificate</a> <a href="/job/6-27.htm">Creditors</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Divorce</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Divorcement</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-16.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-24.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-24.htm">Money</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-15.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-5.htm">Mother's</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">Others</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-23.htm">Sell</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-22.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/psalms/105-17.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/esther/3-15.htm">Statement</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-22.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-22.htm">Word</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-9.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Bill</a> <a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Certificate</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-7.htm">Creditors</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Divorce</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Divorcement</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-23.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Iniquities</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-3.htm">Money</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-13.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-17.htm">Mother's</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-8.htm">Others</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-12.htm">Sell</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/isaiah/52-3.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-16.htm">Statement</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Transgressions</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-4.htm">Word</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-11.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 50</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/50-1.htm">Christ shows Israel's Sin is not to be imputed to him, </a> 2. <a href="/isaiah/50-2.htm">by his ability to save</a> 5. <a href="/isaiah/50-5.htm">By his obedience in that work</a> 7. <a href="/isaiah/50-7.htm">And by his confidence in that assistance</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/50-10.htm">An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the prophetic books, such declarations often precede important revelations or judgments. It underscores the seriousness and authenticity of the message, as it comes directly from the LORD, the covenant God of Israel.Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? This rhetorical question refers to the practice of issuing a certificate of divorce, as outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/24.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1-4</a>. In the context of Israel, "mother" symbolizes the nation itself. God challenges the notion that He has permanently abandoned Israel, suggesting instead that any separation is not due to His initiative. Historically, Israel's exile was perceived as a form of divine divorce, but God clarifies that it was not a final severance.Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? This phrase uses the imagery of debt slavery, a common practice in ancient times where individuals could be sold to pay off debts (<a href="/2_kings/4.htm">2 Kings 4:1</a>). God asserts that He has no creditors, emphasizing that Israel's predicament is not due to any deficiency or obligation on His part. This highlights God's sovereignty and the fact that Israel's suffering is not because of any external compulsion on God.Look, you were sold for your iniquities, Here, the cause of Israel's suffering is identified as their own sin. The concept of being "sold" for iniquities aligns with the covenantal curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where disobedience leads to exile and suffering. This phrase underscores the biblical theme of sin leading to separation from God, a principle that is consistent throughout Scripture.and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. This final phrase reiterates the reason for Israel's exile: their transgressions. The "sending away" of the mother, representing the nation, is a consequence of collective disobedience. This reflects the covenant relationship where blessings and curses are contingent upon Israel's faithfulness. Theologically, it points to the need for repentance and foreshadows the ultimate redemption through Christ, who reconciles humanity to God despite their transgressions.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The speaker in this verse, addressing the people of Israel. Yahweh is the covenant God of Israel, emphasizing His authority and relationship with His people. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel (Mother)</a> Symbolically referred to as the "mother" of the people, representing the nation as a whole. The imagery of divorce and debt is used to illustrate Israel's separation from God due to sin. 3. <a href="/topical/d/divorce_certificate.htm">Divorce Certificate</a> A metaphorical document representing the broken covenant relationship between God and Israel due to their unfaithfulness. 4. <a href="/topical/c/creditors.htm">Creditors</a> Symbolic of those to whom Israel might be thought to be sold, representing the consequences of their sins. 5. <a href="/topical/i/iniquities_and_transgressions.htm">Iniquities and Transgressions</a> The sins and moral failures of Israel that have led to their separation from God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_covenant_relationship.htm">Understanding Covenant Relationship</a> God’s relationship with Israel is likened to a marriage covenant. This highlights the seriousness of their unfaithfulness and the pain of separation due to sin. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_sin.htm">Consequences of Sin</a> Sin leads to separation from God. Just as Israel was "sold" for their iniquities, our sins have consequences that affect our relationship with God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_despite_unfaithfulness.htm">God’s Faithfulness Despite Unfaithfulness</a> Even when Israel is unfaithful, God remains faithful. This is a call to repentance and restoration, emphasizing God’s desire for reconciliation. <a href="/topical/p/personal_reflection_on_sin.htm">Personal Reflection on Sin</a> Reflect on personal areas of unfaithfulness to God. Consider how sin has created distance in your relationship with Him and seek His forgiveness. <a href="/topical/h/hope_for_restoration.htm">Hope for Restoration</a> Despite the imagery of divorce, God’s ultimate plan is restoration. This offers hope that no matter how far we have strayed, God desires to bring us back to Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_50.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 50</a> <a href="/q/how_were_israelites_'sold'_in_isaiah_50_1.htm">In Isaiah 50:1, how could the Israelites have been metaphorically “sold” without any historical records of a literal sale or divorce decree? </a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_feelings.htm">Is this your official Certificate of Divorce?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_50_10_fit_with_trust_in_god.htm">How does Isaiah 50:10 reconcile with the broader biblical narrative on trust in God, given that many faithful individuals still faced dire outcomes?</a> <a href="/q/is_the_christian_divorce_rate_50%.htm">Is the Christian divorce rate truly 50%?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/50.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>L.(1) Where is the bill . . .?--The thought seems suggested by <a href="/isaiah/49-14.htm" title="But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.">Isaiah 49:14</a>, but expands in a different direction. Both questions imply a negative answer. Jehovah had not formally repudiated the wife (Judah) whom he had chosen (<a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm" title="When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.">Deuteronomy 24:1</a>) as he had done her sister Israel (<a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm" title="And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.">Jeremiah 3:8</a>;�<a href="/hosea/2-2.htm" title="Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;">Hosea 2:2</a>). He had no creditors among the nations who could claim her children. On the law of debt which supplies the image, comp. <a href="/exodus/21-7.htm" title="And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.">Exodus 21:7</a>; <a href="/2_kings/4-1.htm" title="Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to him my two sons to be slaves.">2Kings 4:1</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/5-5.htm" title="Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, see, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.">Nehemiah 5:5</a>. The divorce, the sale, were her acts and not His. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/50.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement? On account of her persistent "backsliding," God had "put away Israel," Judah's sister, and had "given her a bill of divorce" (Ver. 3:8). But he had not repudiated Judah; and her children were wrong to suppose themselves altogether cast off (see <a href="/isaiah/49-14.htm">Isaiah 49:14</a>). They had, in fact, by their transgressions, especially their idolatries, wilfully divorced themselves, or at any rate separated themselves, from God; but no sentence had gone forth from him to bar reconciliation and return. Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you! Neither has God exercised the right, regarded as inherent in a parent (<a href="/exodus/21-7.htm">Exodus 21:7</a>; <a href="/2_kings/4-11.htm">2 Kings 4:11</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/6-5.htm">Nehemiah 6:5, 8</a>), of selling his children to a creditor. They are not sold - he has "taken no money for them" (<a href="/psalms/44-12.htm">Psalm 44:12</a>; <a href="/isaiah/52-3.htm">Isaiah 52:3</a>); and the Babylonians are thus not their rightful owners (<a href="/isaiah/49-24.htm">Isaiah 49:24</a>) - they are still God's children, his property, and the objects of his care. For your iniquities... for your transgressions; rather, by your iniquities... by your transgressions. The separation, such as it was, between God and his people was caused by their sins, not by any act of his. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/50-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>This is what כֹּ֣ה ׀ (kōh) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> Like this, thus, here, now the LORD יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel says: אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “Where אֵ֣י (’ê) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_335.htm">Strong's 335: </a> Where?, how? is your mother’s אִמְּכֶם֙ (’im·mə·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) certificate סֵ֣פֶר (sê·p̄er) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5612.htm">Strong's 5612: </a> A missive, document, writing, book of divorce כְּרִית֤וּת (kə·rî·ṯūṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3748.htm">Strong's 3748: </a> A cutting, divorce with which אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that I sent her away? שִׁלַּחְתִּ֔יהָ (šil·laḥ·tî·hā) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> To send away, for, out Or א֚וֹ (’ōw) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_176.htm">Strong's 176: </a> Desire, if to which מִ֣י (mî) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4310.htm">Strong's 4310: </a> Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix of My creditors מִנּוֹשַׁ֔י (min·nō·wō·šay) Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5383.htm">Strong's 5383: </a> To lend, borrow on security, interest did I sell you? מָכַ֥רְתִּי (mā·ḵar·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4376.htm">Strong's 4376: </a> To sell Look, הֵ֤ן (hên) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2005.htm">Strong's 2005: </a> Lo! behold! you were sold נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֔ם (nim·kar·tem) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4376.htm">Strong's 4376: </a> To sell for your iniquities, בַּעֲוֺנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ (ba·‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·ḵem) Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity and for your transgressions וּבְפִשְׁעֵיכֶ֖ם (ū·ḇə·p̄iš·‘ê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6588.htm">Strong's 6588: </a> Transgression your mother אִמְּכֶֽם׃ (’im·mə·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) was sent away. שֻׁלְּחָ֥ה (šul·lə·ḥāh) Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> To send away, for, out <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-1.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 50:1 Thus says Yahweh Where is the bill (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/49-26.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 49:26"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 49:26" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/50-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 50:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 50:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>