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 hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

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

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath 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 to 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 loseth one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he findeth it?

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

Their shepherds

For the pastors have become brutish, 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; even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith 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 ye have not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

On the

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

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

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

Have forgotten

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

Thou art my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

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

And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

Resting place

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy 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 fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.