Psalms 119:176
176I have agone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,for I do not bforget your commandments.
Isaiah 53:6
6 cAll we like sheep have gone astray;we have turned—every one—to his own way;
dand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 23:2
2Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning ethe shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. fBehold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord.Ezekiel 34:6
6they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, gwith none to search or seek for them.Matthew 9:36
36 hWhen he saw the crowds, ihe had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, jlike sheep without a shepherd.Matthew 18:12
12 kWhat do you think? lIf a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?Luke 15:4-6
4 m“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, nif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine oin the open country, and pgo after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, qhe 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 rI have found my sheep that was lost.’
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