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“My people have been lost sheep.

Their shepherds[a] have allowed them to go astray.
They have wandered around in the mountains.
They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another.[b]
They have forgotten their resting place.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:6 sn The shepherds are the priests, prophets, and leaders who have led Israel into idolatry (2:8).
  2. Jeremiah 50:6 sn 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).