Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been a lost flock. Their shepherds have led them astray in the mountains; 1 they have turned them around from hill to hill. They went, they forgot the place where they had lived. 1

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In The King James Version

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

In Context

5They will ask the way to Zion and will set off toward it, saying, 1 We will go and join ourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.”

7Everyone who went out to them devoured them. Their adversaries said, 'We are not guilty, 1 because they sinned against Yahweh, their true home—Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.' 1

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Cross References

Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place; you will guard me from trouble. 1 You will surround me with the songs of victory. Selah 1

Psalms 91:1He who lives in the shelter of the Most High 1 will stay in the shadow of the Almighty. 1

Psalms 119:176I have wandered off like a lost sheep; 1 seek your servant, 1 for I have not forgotten your commandments.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's feeding trough, 1 but Israel does not know, Israel does not understand.” 1

Isaiah 32:2Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, 1 like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a land of weariness. 1

Isaiah 56:10All their watchmen are blind, they do not understand. 1 They are all silent dogs who cannot bark. 1 They dream, and lying down they love to sleep. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:2-9

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,… Read the whole commentary →

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