“Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.”
Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sins to buy their own lusts and pleasures. Meaning, that he hath not forsaken her, but through her own occasion, as Hos. 2:2 . Which should declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show none.