Jeremiah 50:6
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Isaiah 53:6
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Matthew 9:36
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36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,(A) because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.(B)
Matthew 10:6
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6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.(A)
Ezekiel 34:14
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14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel(A) will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture(B) on the mountains of Israel.(C)
Jeremiah 50:17
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Psalm 119:176
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Ezekiel 34:4-12
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4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed(A) the sick or bound up(B) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(C) 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(D) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(E) 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill.(F) They were scattered(G) over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.(H)
7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(I) and has become food for all the wild animals,(J) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(K) 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against(L) the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue(M) my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.(N)
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep(O) and look after them. 12 As a shepherd(P) looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.(Q)
Jeremiah 50:19
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Jeremiah 3:6
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Unfaithful Israel
6 During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.
Psalm 116:7
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Psalm 91:1
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1 Peter 2:25
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25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[a](A) but now you have returned to the Shepherd(B) and Overseer of your souls.(C)
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:25 Isaiah 53:4,5,6 (see Septuagint)
Luke 15:4-7
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4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?(A) 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’(B) 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.(C)
Matthew 18:10-13
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The Parable of the Wandering Sheep(A)
10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels(B) in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. [11] [a]
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.
Footnotes
- Matthew 18:11 Some manuscripts include here the words of Luke 19:10.
Matthew 15:24
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24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”(A)
Zechariah 11:4-9
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Two Shepherds
4 This is what the Lord my God says: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.(A) 5 Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the Lord, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.(B) 6 For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the Lord. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors(C) and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”(D)
7 So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter,(E) particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. 8 In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.
The flock detested(F) me, and I grew weary of them 9 and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish.(G) Let those who are left eat(H) one another’s flesh.”
Ezekiel 34:25-28
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25 “‘I will make a covenant(A) of peace(B) with them and rid the land of savage beasts(C) so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.(D) 26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[a](E) I will send down showers in season;(F) there will be showers of blessing.(G) 27 The trees will yield their fruit(H) and the ground will yield its crops;(I) the people will be secure(J) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke(K) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.(L) 28 They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety,(M) and no one will make them afraid.(N)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 34:26 Or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be named in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be seen as blessed
Jeremiah 23:11-15
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11 “Both prophet and priest are godless;(A)
even in my temple(B) I find their wickedness,”
declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(C)
they will be banished to darkness
and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
in the year they are punished,(D)”
declares the Lord.
13 “Among the prophets of Samaria
I saw this repulsive thing:
They prophesied by Baal(E)
and led my people Israel astray.(F)
14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen something horrible:(G)
They commit adultery and live a lie.(H)
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,(I)
so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.(J)
They are all like Sodom(K) to me;
the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”(L)
15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:
Jeremiah 10:21
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Jeremiah 3:23
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Jeremiah 2:32
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32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten(A) me,
days without number.
Jeremiah 2:20
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Isaiah 56:10-12
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10 Israel’s watchmen(A) are blind,
they all lack knowledge;(B)
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they lie around and dream,
they love to sleep.(C)
11 They are dogs with mighty appetites;
they never have enough.
They are shepherds(D) who lack understanding;(E)
they all turn to their own way,(F)
they seek their own gain.(G)
12 “Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine!(H)
Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
or even far better.”(I)
Isaiah 32:2
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