Isaiah 50:1 Cross References - LEB

¹ Thus says Yahweh:
"Where is this divorce document of your mother's divorce, with which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.

⁷ " 'And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out.

³⁹ " 'And if your* countryman* who is with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, _⌊you shall not treat him as a slave_⌋.*

¹ "When* a man takes a wife and he marries her _⌊and then_⌋* _⌊she does not please him_⌋,* because he found _⌊something objectionable_⌋* and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, ² and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife _⌊for another man_⌋,* ³ and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her _⌊to himself_⌋* as a wife, ⁴ her first husband who sent her away is not allowed _⌊to take her again_⌋* to become a wife to him after she has _⌊been defiled_⌋,* for that is a detestable thing _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

³⁰ How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had not given them up?

²⁵ Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on.

¹ A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.

¹⁷ They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.

⁵ Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. _⌊We are powerless_⌋,* and our fields and vineyards belong to others."

⁴ I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this* is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."*

¹² You have sold your people _⌊cheaply_⌋,* and did not profit by their price.

³ For thus says Yahweh:
"You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."

¹ Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short _⌊to save_⌋,* and his ear is not too dull _⌊to hear_⌋.* ² Rather, your iniquities have been _⌊barriers_⌋* between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.

¹ A _⌊saying_⌋:* 'Look, if a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him _⌊and she becomes another man's wife_⌋,* will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, would you now return to me?" _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

⁸ And I saw that _⌊for this very reason, that_⌋* on account of apostate* Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted herself also.

¹⁸ "You obtained this for yourself because of your way and your deeds. This is your doom, for it is bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."

² Plead with your mother, plead— because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her whoring _⌊from before her_⌋,* and her adultery from between her breasts. ³ Lest I strip her naked and expose her like the day when she was born; I will make her like the desert and turn her into parched land; I will kill her with thirst. ⁴ And I will not have pity on her children, because they are children of whoredom.

²⁵ And because* he did not have enough* to repay it,* the master ordered him to be sold, and his* wife and his* children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

⁴ So they said, "Moses permitted a man* to write a certificate of divorce and to send her* away." ⁵ But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. ⁶ But from the beginning of creation 'he made them male and female.* ⁷ Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,* ⁸ and the two will become one flesh,'* so that they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate." ¹⁰ And in the house again the disciples began to ask* him about this. ¹¹ And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹² And if she divorces her husband and* marries another, she commits adultery."