⁶ My people were lost sheep;
        their shepherds led them astray;
    they deserted them on the mountains,
        where they wandered off among the hills,
                forgetting their resting place.
⁷ All who found them devoured them;
        and their attackers said,
    “It’s not our fault,
        because they have sinned against the Lord,
            the true pasture,^[a]
            the hope of their ancestors—the Lord.”
⁸ Now wander far from Babylon.
        Get out of that country.
    Like rams of the flock,
        lead the way home.