Jeremiah 50:6 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 50:6

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

FRAGMENTS ON JEREMIAH 28 (253)

He said the sheep is like one who has gone astray. And also in the Gospel he said, "The Son of man came to search for and save the lost." And also in the parable only one is lost out of the hundred that the shepherd who dwelled with them came to find, who also, after laying it on his shoulders, returned it to the ninety-nine.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Their shepherds - Their civil and ecclesiastical governors have been a cause of it. The former by their wicked commands and example; the latter by example as well as doctrine. Turned them - To offer sacrifices unto idols.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jehovah is the resting-place of His sheep (Mt 11:28). They rest in His "bosom" (Isa 40:11). Also His temple at Zion, their "rest," because it is His (Ps 132:8, 14).

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
צֹ֤אן	tzon	sheep	H6629 →
אֹֽבְדוֹת֙	'oe.dOt	lost	H6 →
הָי֣וּ	ha.yah	they have become	H1961 →
עַמִּ֔י	'a.Mi	people my	H5971 →
רֹעֵיהֶ֣ם	ro.'ei.Hem	shepherds their	H7462 →
הִתְע֔וּם	hit.'Um	they have caused to wander them	H8582 →
הָרִ֖ים	ha.Rim	mountains	H2022 →
שֽׁוֹבְב֑וּם	shoe.vim	they have led away them	H7726 →
מֵהַ֤ר	me.Har	from mountain	H2022 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
גִּבְעָה֙	giv.'Ah	hill	H1389 →
הָלָ֔כוּ	ha.La.khu	they have gone	H1980 →
שָׁכְח֖וּ	sha.khe.Chu	they have forgotten	H7911 →
רִבְצָֽם׃	riv.Tzam	resting place their	H7258 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 53:6
We 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.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:25
  For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 119:176
  I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Isaiah 55:7
  Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…
- Romans 4:25
  He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
Through
Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
leads to
- Numbers 27:17
  who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
- Mark 6:34
  When Jesus stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.
- Ezekiel 34:3–6
  You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah