lost sheep. Compare Matthew 10:6; Matthew 15:24.
shepherds: i.e. rulers.
they have turned them away on the mountains. on the mountains they seduced them: i.e. by the idolatrous worship practiced there.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 50:6
Jeremiah 50:6
6 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.c