Isaiah 50:1. 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?
There were some who said God had put away, like a divorced woman, his ancient people, that he had sold his children into slavery; but he says, "It is not so. Where is the bill of divorcement? To whom have I sold you?"
Isaiah 50:1. Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
That is to say, the nation, which was their mother, had lost the favor of God; not because of his capriciousness, but because their sins had cried aloud for justice and for judgment. It could not be that God should be in friendly relationship with such a people, so hypocritical, so false, so every way rebellious against him.
Isaiah 50:1. 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?
There were some who said God had put away, like a divorced woman, his ancient people, that he had sold his children into slavery; but he says, "It is not so. Where is the bill of divorcement? To whom have I sold you?"
Isaiah 50:1. Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
That is to say, the nation, which was their mother, had lost the favor of God; not because of his capriciousness, but because their sins had cried aloud for justice and for judgment. It could not be that God should be in friendly relationship with such a people, so hypocritical, so false, so every way rebellious against him.