Jeremiah 50:6-7
When God’s people abandon the Lord and follow corrupt leadership, they become spiritually lost and exposed to judgment.
6 My people have 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 resting place.
7 All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
When God’s people abandon the LORD and follow corrupt leadership, they become spiritually lost and exposed to judgment.
To expose how Israel became spiritually lost through the failure of its shepherds and how the nations justified devouring them because they abandoned the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:6–7 continues the opening section of the oracle against Babylon. While Babylon is the target of coming judgment, the prophet reflects on how Israel and Judah arrived in exile, emphasizing their wandering condition and the failure of their shepherds.
Babylon Judged: The Fall of the Hammer and the Return of the LORD’s Flock
The LORD breaks Babylon, the proud hammer of the whole earth, so that his scattered flock may return, seek him, and be restored under his everlasting covenant mercy.