Isa 50:1, Jer 3:1 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

Isaiah 50:1

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

1 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is ^ayour mother’s certificate of divorce,
with which ^bI sent her away?
Or ^cwhich of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
^dBehold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 3:1

1 ^e“If ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If} a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
^gWould not that land be greatly polluted?
^hYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.