Isaiah 53:6
6 aAll we like sheep have gone astray;we have turned—every one—to his own way;
band the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 50:6-7
6 c“My people have been lost sheep. dTheir shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold. 7All who found them have devoured them, eand their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for fthey have sinned against the Lord, gtheir habitation of righteousness, the Lord, hthe hope of their fathers.’Ezekiel 34:5-6
5 iSo they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and jthey became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; 6they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, kwith none to search or seek for them.Ezekiel 34:16
16 lI will seek the lost, mand I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and nthe fat and the strong I will destroy. ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over
I will feed them in justice. Ezekiel 34:23
23And pI will set up over them one shepherd, qmy servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.Matthew 9:36
36 rWhen he saw the crowds, she had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, tlike sheep without a shepherd.Matthew 10:5-6
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles
5 uThese twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of vthe Samaritans, 6 wbut go rather to xthe lost sheep of ythe house of Israel.Luke 15:4-6
4 z“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, aaif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine abin the open country, and acgo after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, adhe lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for aeI have found my sheep that was lost.’
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