Jeremiah 50:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

People

Their shepherds

Zechariah 11:4

On the

Jeremiah 2:20

Jeremiah 3:6

Ezekiel 34:6

Have forgotten

Isaiah 32:2

Resting place

Psalm 23:2

Song of Songs 1:7

Ezekiel 34:14

Bible References

People

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

I wandered as a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I forgat not thy commands.

All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.

But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

And he, having answered, said, I was not sent except to the sheep having been lost, of the house of Israel.

For the Son of man has come to save the lost.

What man of you, having one hundred. sheep, and having lost one of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes for the one lost, till he find it

For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.

Their shepherds

For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered.

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them.

Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

On the

For from of old I broke thy yoke, I burst thy bonds; and thou wilt say, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou turnest one side, committing fornication:

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there.

My sheep will wander upon all the mountains, and upon every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth my flock was scattered, and none searching and none seeking.

Have forgotten

Will a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her girdles? and my people forgat me days of no numbering.

Thou a covering to me, from straits thou wilt watch me; thou wilt surround me with rejoicings of deliverance. Silence.

Prayer to Moses the man of God. O Jehovah, thou wert a refuge to us in generation and generation.

He dwelling in the covering of the Most High, in the shadow of the Almighty shall he lodge.

Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest; for Jehovah benefited to thee.

For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not.

And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.

Resting place

He will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of rest

Announce to me, thou whom my soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore shall I be as he covered by the herds of thy companions.

In a good pasture will I feed them, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall be their rest: there shall they lie in a good rest, and a fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel.