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

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34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.(A)

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17 who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep without a shepherd.”(A)

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My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.(A)

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14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.(A)

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You eat the fat; you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatted calves, but you do not feed the sheep.(A) You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.(B) So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(C) My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with no one to search or seek for them.

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For the teraphim[a] utter nonsense,
    and the diviners see lies;
the dreamers tell false dreams
    and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people[b] wander like sheep;
    they suffer for lack of a shepherd.(A)

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  1. 10.2 Or household gods
  2. 10.2 Heb they

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”(A)

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The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
    against the man who is my associate,”
            says the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.(A)
In the whole land, says the Lord,
    two-thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    and one-third shall be left alive.(B)

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16 Then Micaiah[a] said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each one go home in peace.’ ”(A)

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  1. 18.16 Heb he

17 Then Micaiah[a] said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each one go home in peace.’ ”(A)

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  1. 22.17 Heb he

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness,(A)

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15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested[a] as we are, yet without sin.(A)

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  1. 4.15 Or tempted

Feeding the Four Thousand

32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for the crowd because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”(A)

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but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.(A)

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16 For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,[a] or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,[b] but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

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  1. 11.16 Syr Compare Gk Vg: Heb the youth
  2. 11.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The Corruption of Israel’s Rulers

All you wild animals,
    all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!(A)
10 Israel’s[a] sentinels are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.(B)
11 The dogs have a mighty appetite;
    they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
    they have all turned to their own way,
    to their own gain, one and all.

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  1. 56.10 Heb His