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. Cross References Deuteronomy 24:1 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. Deuteronomy 24:3 and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies, Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? 2 Kings 4:1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!" Nehemiah 5:5 We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others." Isaiah 1:28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish. Isaiah 27:8 By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows. Isaiah 43:27 Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me. Isaiah 46:8 Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors! Isaiah 52:3 For this is what the LORD says: "You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed." Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one's youth," says your God. Isaiah 54:7 "For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. Isaiah 58:1 "Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram's horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. Jeremiah 3:8 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. Jeremiah 4:18 "Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!" Hosea 2:2 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. Treasury of Scripture 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 Deuteronomy 24:1-5 Jeremiah 3:1,8 Hosea 2:2-4 or which Exodus 21:7 Leviticus 25:39 Deuteronomy 32:30 behold. Isaiah 52:3 Isaiah 59:1,2 1 Kings 21:25 |