Jeremiah 50:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶My people, you are lost sheep
abandoned in the mountains
    by their shepherds.
You don't even remember
    your resting place.
⁷I am your true pastureland,
the one who gave hope
    to your ancestors.
But you abandoned me,
so when your enemies found you,
    they felt no guilt
    as they gobbled you up.

⁸^(A) Escape from Babylonia,
my people.
Get out of that country!
Don't wait for anyone else.

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Jeremiah 50:6-8

New International Version

⁶“My people have been lost sheep;^(A)
    their shepherds^(B) have led them astray^(C)
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill^(D)
    and forgot their own resting place.^(E)
⁷Whoever found them devoured^(F) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,^(G)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope^(H) of their ancestors.’