Jeremiah 23:2

Ye have scattered my flock. — The charge was true literally as well as spiritually. The dispersion of the people in Egypt, Assyria, and Chaldæa was the result of the neglect, the tyranny, the feebleness of their rulers. They had been led, not as the Eastern shepherd leads (John 10:4), but “driven” — not to the fold, but “away” into far lands.

Have not visited. — i.e., cared for and regarded. They were negligent, but God was not, and He therefore would “visit” them by reproof and chastisement.