They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us cleave to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

¶ My people hath been as lost sheep: their [a]shepherds have caused them to go astray, and have turned them away to the mountains: they have gone from [b]mountain to hill, and forgotten their resting place.

All that found them have devoured them, and their enemies said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, [c]the habitation of justice, even the Lord the hope of their fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:6 Their governors and ministers by their examples have provoked them to idolatry.
  2. Jeremiah 50:6 They have committed idolatry in every place.
  3. Jeremiah 50:7 For the Lord dwelt among them in his Temple, and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies.

They will ask the way(A) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(B) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant(C)
    that will not be forgotten.

“My people have been lost sheep;(D)
    their shepherds(E) have led them astray(F)
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(G)
    and forgot their own resting place.(H)
Whoever found them devoured(I) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(J)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope(K) of their ancestors.’

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