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 is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

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

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he finds it?

For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Their shepherds

For the shepherds have become senseless, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought again those who were driven away, neither have you sought those who were lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.

Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock for the slaughter;

On the

For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

Have forgotten

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

[A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Return unto your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.

And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a refuge from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Resting place

He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

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