Matthew Henry Commentary Isaiah 50:1-3

"Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother`s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering." — Isaiah 50:1-3 (ASV)

Those who have professed to be God's people, and seem to be dealt with severely, are inclined to complain, as if God had been hard on them. Here is an answer for such murmurings: God never deprived anyone of their advantages, except because of their sins. The Jews were sent into Babylon for their idolatry, a sin that broke the covenant; and they were ultimately rejected for crucifying the Lord of glory. God called on them to leave their sins and prevent their own ruin. Finally, the Son came to His own, but His own did not receive Him. When God calls people to happiness, and they will not answer, they are justly left to be miserable.

To silence doubts concerning His power, proofs of it are given. The wonders that attended His sufferings and death proclaimed that He was the Son of God (Matthew 27:54).