They will ask about Zion,
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves[a] to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant(A) that will never be forgotten.

My people are lost sheep;(B)
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.(C)
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
All who found them devoured them.
Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;
instead, they have sinned against the Lord,
their righteous grazing land,(D)
the hope of their ancestors,(E) the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:5 LXX; MT reads Come and join yourselves

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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