2 Chronicles 18:16 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶ Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’”

Psalm 142:4 New International Version (NIV)

Hosea 7:13 New International Version (NIV)

Matthew 9:36 New International Version (NIV)

³⁶ When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 18:12-13 New International Version (NIV)

¹² “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? ¹³ And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

Luke 15:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵ And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders

1 Peter 2:25 New International Version (NIV)

²⁵ For “you were like sheep going astray,”^[a] but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.