KJV 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 50:6
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 50
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.
6 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.
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
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צֹ֤אןH6629 · tsonflockאֹֽבְדוֹת֙H6 · a.vadto perishהָי֣וּH1961 · ha.yahto beעַמִּ֔יH5971 · ampeopleרֹעֵיהֶ֣םH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsהִתְע֔וּםH8582 · ta.ahto go astrayהָרִ֖יםH2022 · harmountain: mountשֽׁוֹבְב֑וּםH7726 · sho.vavturning backמֵהַ֤רH2022 · harmountain: mountאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)גִּבְעָה֙H1389 · giv.ahGibeath-(elohim)הָלָ֔כוּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentשָׁכְח֖וּH7911 · sha.khachto forgetרִבְצָֽם׃H7258 · re.vetsrest
Cross-references
Isaiah 53:6All 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.Matthew 9:36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.Matthew 10:6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Ezekiel 34:14I 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.Jeremiah 50:17Israel [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.Psalm 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.Ezekiel 34:4-12The diseased have ye 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.Matthew 15:24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Jeremiah 3:6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.Psalm 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.Jeremiah 50:19And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.Psalm 116:7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.Isaiah 56:10-12His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.Jeremiah 10:21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.Jeremiah 2:32Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.Isaiah 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.Psalm 23:2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.Psalm 32:7Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
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