Readings for Celebrating Advent

²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord God to them, “Behold, I Myself will judge between the [well-fed] fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you push with side and shoulder, and gore with your horns all those that have become weak and sick until you have scattered them away, ²² therefore, I will rescue My flock, and they shall no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep [ungodly] and another [godly].

²³ “Then I will appoint over them one shepherd and he will feed them, [a ruler like] My servant ^[a]David; he will feed them and be their shepherd.^(A)