Jeremiah 50:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Lost sheep were my people, their shepherds misled them, leading them astray on the mountains; From mountain to hill they wandered, forgetting their fold.

Cross References

Psalm 116:7

Return, my soul, to your rest; the Lord has been very good to you.

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Psalm 23:2

In green pastures he makes me lie down; to still waters he leads me;

Psalm 32:7

You are my shelter; you guard me from distress; with joyful shouts of deliverance you surround me. Selah

Psalm 90:1

A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations.

Psalm 91:1

You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shade of the Almighty,

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master’s manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. But this you did not will.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Jeremiah 10:21

How stupid are the shepherds! The Lord they have not sought; For this reason they have failed, and all their flocks scattered.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:32

Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her sash? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:23

Deceptive indeed are the hills, the mountains, clamorous; Only in the Lord our God is Israel’s salvation.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 33:12

Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place, now a waste, without people or animals, and in all its cities there shall again be sheepfolds for the shepherds to rest their flocks.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 50:19

But I will bring Israel back to its pasture, to feed on Carmel and Bashan, And on Mount Ephraim and Gilead, until they have their fill.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because they led my people astray, saying, “Peace!” when there is no peace, and when a wall is built, they cover it with whitewash,

Ezekiel 34:14

In good pastures I will pasture them; on the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down on good grazing ground; in rich pastures they will be pastured on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:15

I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment. Separation of the Sheep.

Matthew 10:6

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24

He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 9:36

At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.

1 Peter 2:25

For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.