My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
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Gill's Exposition
My people hath been lost sheep,.... like lost sheep, without a shepherd, going astray the fold, wandering from place to place, having none to take care of them, guide and direct them, or to go in and…
Barnes' Notes
Their shepherds ... mountains - Some translate it: Their shepherds, i. e., civil rulers (Jer 2:8 note) “have led them astray upon the seducing moutains.” - the mountains being the usual places where…
I. Here is a word spoken against Babylon by him whose works all agree with his word and none of whose words fall to the ground. The king of Babylon had been very kind of Jeremiah, and yet he must…
Cambridge Bible
they have turned them away on the mountains The consonants of the MT. should be rendered on the seducingor apostate mountains, but the variant (as in E.VV.) is probably right. It may refer to…
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