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.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 50 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'My people have been lost sheep' (Jer 50:6) supplies the exact image and idiom behind 'the lost sheep of the house of Israel' (10:6). The phrase is a deliberate scriptural designation of Israel as a flock gone astray under failed shepherds, which the mission of the Twelve is sent to gather.
High confidence'My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray' — close verbal source for 'the lost sheep of the house of Israel' (Mt 15:24).
Medium confidence