Readings for Celebrating Advent

²⁰ “‘So this is what the Lord God says to them: [^LLook; ^TBehold] I, myself, will judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. ²¹ You push with your side and with your shoulder, and you ·knock down [butt; thrust at] all the weak sheep with your horns until you have ·forced them away [or scattered them abroad]. ²² So I will save my flock; they will ·not be hurt anymore [^Lno longer be prey]. I will judge between one sheep and another. ²³ Then I will put over them one shepherd, my servant David [Is. 11:1; Jer. 30:9; Hos. 3:5; Mic. 5:2; ^Cthe Messiah envisioned as a new David]. He will feed them and tend them and be their shepherd.