Jeremiah 50:6

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“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 · Public Domain
YLTPD

“A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, <FI>To<Fi> the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 50:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 23:2He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
  2. Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
  3. Psalms 90:1Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
  4. Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
  5. Psalms 116:7Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
  6. Psalms 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
  7. Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
  8. Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
  9. Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
  10. Isaiah 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
  11. Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
  12. Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
  13. Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  14. Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
  15. Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  16. Jeremiah 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
  17. Jeremiah 10:21For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
  18. Jeremiah 23:1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 23:11“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
  21. Jeremiah 50:19I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
  22. Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
  23. Ezekiel 34:5They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
  24. Ezekiel 34:6My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

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