Readings for Celebrating Advent

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.^{(A) 21} Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns^(B) until you have driven them away, ²² I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.^{(C) 23} I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend^(D) them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.^(E)