Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.
New American Standard Bible
They have made them turn aside on the
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their
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.
Holman Bible
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
International Standard Version
My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them toward the mountains. They go from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside [to the seductive places of idolatry] on the mountains.
They have gone along [from one sin to another] from mountain to hill;
They have forgotten their [own] resting place.
Bible in Basic English
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
Darby Translation
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they turned them away on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
Julia Smith Translation
My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away [to the] mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.
Modern King James verseion
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Wandering sheep, have my people, been, Their own shepherds led them astray, On the mountains, they seduced them, From mountain to hill, have they gone, They have forgotten their couching-place.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.
Themes
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders
Lost sheep » Sinners regarded as lost sheep
Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Shepherds » FALSE » Lead the sheep astray
Topics
Interlinear
'abad
Tso'n
Ra`ah
Ta`ah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:6
Images Jeremiah 50:6
Prayers for Jeremiah 50:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
5 They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten. 6 "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place. 7 All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, 'We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.'
Cross References
Isaiah 53:6
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.
Matthew 9:36
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 10:6
Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Psalm 23:2
He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.
Psalm 119:176
I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.
Jeremiah 3:6
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.
Jeremiah 50:17
"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.
Ezekiel 34:14
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.
Psalm 32:7
You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. (Selah)
Psalm 90:1
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!
Psalm 91:1
As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king --
Psalm 116:7
Rest once more, my soul, for the Lord has vindicated you.
Song of Songs 1:7-8
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!
Isaiah 30:15
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.
Isaiah 32:2
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.
Isaiah 56:10-12
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.
Jeremiah 2:20
"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.
Jeremiah 2:32
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.
Jeremiah 3:23
We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.
Jeremiah 10:21
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.
Jeremiah 23:11-15
Moreover, the Lord says, "Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!
Jeremiah 50:19
But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.
Ezekiel 34:4-12
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.
Ezekiel 34:25-28
"'I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.
Zechariah 11:4-9
The Lord my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.
Matthew 15:24
So he answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matthew 18:10-13
"See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Luke 15:4-7
"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?
1 Peter 2:25
For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.