Isaiah 50:1 (KJV)

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Thus saith the LORD Where is the bill of your other’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

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the bill. De 24:1-4 Jer 3:1 Jer 3:8 Ho 2:2-4 Mr 10:4-12

or which. Ex 21:7 Le 25:39 De 32:30 2Ki 4:1 Ne 5:5 Es 7:4 Ps 44:12 Mt 18:25

for your iniquities. Isa 52:3 Isa 59:1 Isa 59:2 1Ki 21:25 2Ki 17:17 Jer 3:8 Jer 4:18

10 An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves. 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.

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