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Jeremiah 50:6

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50:6“My people have been lost sheep.

Their shepherds13 have allow them to go astray.

They have wandered around in the mountains.

They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another.14

They have forgotten their resting place.

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Footnotes

  1. 13 The shepherds are the priests, prophets, and leaders who have led Israel into idolatry (2:8).
  2. 14 The allusion here, if it is not merely a part of the metaphor of the wandering sheep, is to the worship of the false gods on the high hills (2:20, 3:2).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“My people have been lost sheep;

their shepherds have led them astray

and caused them to roam on the mountains.

They wandered over mountain and hill

and forgot their own resting place.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My people were lost sheep;

their shepherds led them astray,

guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.

They wandered from mountain to hill;

they forgot their resting place.

NLTNew Living Translation

“My people have been lost sheep.

Their shepherds have led them astray

and turned them loose in the mountains.

They have lost their way

and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.

LEBThe Lexham English 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.

KJV 1900King 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.