Readings for Celebrating Advent

²⁰ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them. I myself am going to judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. ²¹ Because you have shoved them with your side and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns, until you scattered them abroad, ²² I will save my flock so that they will not become plunder anymore. In this way I will judge between one sheep and another.

²³ Then I will raise up over them one shepherd, and he will tend them. My servant David will tend them, and he will be their shepherd.