Psalms 44:12
You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.
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- Jer 15:13 : 13 I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.
- Deut 32:30 : 30 How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the LORD had handed them over?
- Isa 52:3-4 : 3 For this is what the LORD says:“You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.” 4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.
- Rev 18:13 : 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.
- Judg 2:14 : 14 The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.
- Judg 3:8 : 8 The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Armon-Haraim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.
- Neh 5:8-9 : 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say. 9 Then I said,“The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies? 10 Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral! 11 This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.” 12 They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.
- Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
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- Isa 52:3-42 verses82%
3For this is what the LORD says:“You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”
4For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.
- Ps 44:13-142 verses81%
13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
- Ps 44:9-113 verses79%
9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.
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5Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say,‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
- Joel 3:3-86 verses72%
3and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.
4Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!
5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
6You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.
7Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!
8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the LORD has spoken!
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6We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
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24You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
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4Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.
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15Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
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45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.
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15They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”
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4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
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68Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Job 22:6-72 verses71%
6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.
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13I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.
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16The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.
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12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Lev 25:44-452 verses70%
44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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22But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says,“Bring that back!”
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42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
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8I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.
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37Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!
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4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’
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13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.
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5all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help, but only shame and disgrace.”
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6You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.
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4They replied,“You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”
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5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
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12You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place.
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11Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
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3You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.
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1This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
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12I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.
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33When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.
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8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.