Isa 50:1-3 | 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 50:1-3

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.
2 ^eWhy, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^fIs my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
^gBehold, by my rebuke ^hI dry up the sea,
ⁱI make the rivers a desert;
^jtheir fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 ^kI clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.”