Readings for Celebrating Advent

²⁰ Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you push with side and with shoulder, and ^(A)thrust at all the ^[a]weak with your horns until you have scattered them ^[b]abroad, ²² therefore, I will ^(B)deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

²³ “Then I will ^(C)set over them one ^(D)shepherd, My servant ^(E)David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.