The Lord’s second question calls his people to present a creditor who had forced the Lord to sell them into slavery. This is a reference to a practice whereby a man who had creditors calling for payment of loans could see his children into slavery if he could not pay otherwise (Exodus 21:7; 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5). Yet while the Lord did sell the Israelites, it was not because he was indebted to anyone. Rather, it was because of their own iniquities
that the Lord sold them.1
1 Thus says the LORD: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.