Isaiah 50:1

1. Thus saith the Lord As in reply to Zion’s complaint, and in justification of himself.

Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? In effect, the words are: “Your mother, or Zion, to whom I am married, and claim still an indissoluble marriage bond, has no such bill of divorcement, except as she has herself made it by departure from me. Consequently, her children are not chattels to be sold into bondage. Earthly fathers do this, but I never. The children of Zion may break away from me and sell themselves, but I am faithful to my covenants my part of the bond for ever. You are doers of these evils; your mother has put herself away.”