John Trapp on Isaiah 50:1

CHAP. L.

Ver. 1. WHere is the bill of your mothers divorcement, Heb. abſciſſion: this bill was called by the Greeces, [non-Latin text not transcribed]: but none ſuch could here be produced or proved, as given by God to the Jewiſh State: but that the diſloyalty was theirs, and their dereliction on their part: God had neither rejected them though innocent (as ſome husbands did their wives out of a peeviſh and ſelfiſh humour) nor ſold them though obedient, as ſome fathers did their children for payment of their debts: for he is neither debter to any, nor non-ſolvent, Rom. 11.35, 36.

Behold for your iniquities ye have ſold your ſelves] O duram ſervitutem! O miſeram neceſſitatem! You have ſold your ſelves, as Ahab did, to work wickedneſs, 1 King. 25.29. and therefore I have juſtly ſold and abandoned you into the hands of your enemies, Judg. 2.13, 14. & 3.7, 8. Pſal. 44.11, 12.

Is your mother] i. e. The Synagogue, whereunto the Jews do yet ſtill adhere as to their mother: and the Lord did then acknowledge himſelf to be her husband, but now he hath worthily caſt her off.