Jeremiah 50:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

Cross References

Psalm 116:7

Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

Psalm 23:2

He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters.

Psalm 32:7

You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. Selah.

Psalm 90:1

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

Psalm 91:1

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Isaiah 1:3

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

Isaiah 30:15

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

Isaiah 53:6

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Jeremiah 2:20

For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

Jeremiah 2:32

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

Jeremiah 23:1

A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:23

Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Jeremiah 3:6

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

Jeremiah 33:12

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:19

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:

Ezekiel 34:14

I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:15

I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

Matthew 10:6

But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

Matthew 15:24

But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 9:36

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

1 Peter 2:25

Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.