Jeremiah 50:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵They will ask how to go to Zion.
    They will start to go in that direction.
They will say, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord.
    Let’s make an agreement that will last forever.
    Let’s make an agreement that we will never forget.’

⁶“My people have been like lost sheep.
    Their shepherds led them the wrong way
and caused them to wander away into the mountains and hills.
    They forgot where their resting place was.
⁷They were attacked by all who saw them.
    And their attackers said,
‘We were not wrong to attack them
    because they sinned against the Lord.
They should have stayed close to him, their true resting place.
    The Lord is the one their fathers trusted in.’