Jeremiah 50:6 - Exposition

Lost sheep. Not merely with reference to the scattering of the Captivity (as in Isaiah 27:13 , where the Authorized Version has "ready to perish"), but to the transgressions of the Law of God, of which the Jews had been constantly guilty (comp. Psalms 119:176 ; Isaiah 53:6 ). Their shepherds … mountains. This is the marginal correction in the Hebrew Bible; the text has, "Their shepherds have caused them to go astray upon the seducing mountains"—a strange expression, which is, however, defended by Naegelsbach on the ground of Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 3:2 , Jeremiah 3:23 ; Jeremiah 17:2 . Their resting place; literally, their couching place; i.e. their pasture, Jehovah, at once their Pasture ( Jeremiah 17:7 ) and their true Shepherd ( Psalms 23:1 ).