Jeremiah 50:6

My people have 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 resting place.

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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 shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten."

7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers."

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Cross References

Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place.You will preserve me from trouble.You will surround me with songs of deliverance.Selah.

Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most Highwill rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep.Seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner,and the donkey his master's crib;but Israel doesn't know,my people do not consider.

Isaiah 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,and a shelter from the storm,as streams of water in a dry place,as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

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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