The Lord God Will Seek Them Out

¹¹ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I, I ^(B)myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. ¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on ^(C)a day of clouds and ^(D)thick darkness.

^15 (A)I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, ^(B)and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. ^16 (C)I will seek the lost, ^(D)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and ^(E)the fat and the strong I will destroy.^[a] I will feed them in justice.

¹⁷ “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: ^(F)Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and ^(G)male goats.