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

"The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

So he answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

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"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

Their shepherds

For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord's advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

Moreover, the Lord says, "Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.

The Lord my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

On the

"Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, "Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

Have forgotten

Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.

You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. (Selah)

A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king --

Rest once more, my soul, for the Lord has vindicated you.

For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: "If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

Resting place

He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!

In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.