Bible verses about "sheep" | CLV

⁷ Hard pressed is He and being humbled, yet He is not opening His mouth. As a flockling to slaughter is He fetched, and as a ewe before her shearers is mute, so He is not opening His mouth."

¹² Verily I will gather Jacob--all of you together. Verily I will convene the remnant of Israel. Together will I place them as a flock in distress, as a drove in the midst of the plague; they will clamor because of humanity."

³¹ Then Jesus is saying to them, "All of you shall be snared in Me in this night, for it is written, I shall be smiting the shepherd, And scattered shall be the sheep of the flock."

¹⁷ He is saying to him the third time, "Simon of John, are you fond of Me?Peter was sorry that He said to him the third time "Are you fond of Me?and he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art aware of all things! Thou knowest that I am fond of Thee.And Jesus is saying to him, "Graze My little sheep!"

¹⁴ I am the Shepherd ideal, and I know Mine and Mine know Me,

¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ Yahweh is my Shepherd; Nothing shall I lack. ² In verdant oases, He is making me recline; Beside restful waters, He is conducting me." ³ He is restoring my soul; He is guiding me in the routes of righteousness, on account of His Name." ⁴ Even though I should walk in the ravine of blackest shadow, I shall not fear evil, For You are with me; Your club and Your staff, they are comforting me." ⁵ You are arranging a table before me in front of my foes; You have sleeked my head with oil; My cup is satiated. ⁶ Yea, goodness and benignity, they shall pursue me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the House of Yahweh for the length of my days."

⁶ A perishing flock has My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, [To] the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place."

¹ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, ² `Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you have said unto them:To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Woe [to] the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed? ³ The fat you do eat, and the wool you put on, The fed one you slaughter, the flock you feed not." ⁴ The weak you have not strengthened, And the sick one you have not healed, And the broken you have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost you have not sought, And with might you have ruled them and with rigor." ⁵ And they are scattered from want of a shepherd, And are for food to every beast of the field, Yea, they are scattered." ⁶ Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking." ⁷ Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Yahweh:" ⁸ I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed." ⁹ Therefore, O shepherds, hear a word of Yahweh:" ¹⁰ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I [am] against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food." ¹¹ For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I--even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out." ¹² As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness." ¹³ And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land." ¹⁴ With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel." ¹⁵ I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." ¹⁶ The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment." ¹⁷ And you, My flock, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I am judging between sheep and sheep, Between rams and he-goats." ¹⁸ Is it a little thing for you--the good pasture you enjoy, And the remnant of your pasture you tread down with your feet, And a depth of waters you do drink, And the remainder with your feet you trample, ¹⁹ And My flock the trodden thing of your feet consumes, And the trampled thing of your feet drinks? ²⁰ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh to them:Lo, I--even I, have judged between fat sheep and lean sheep." ²¹ Because with side and with shoulder you thrust away, And with your horns push all the diseased, Till you have scattered them to the out-place, ²² And I have given safety to My flock, And they are not any more for prey, And I have judged between sheep and sheep." ²³ And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he has fed them--my servant David, He does feed them, and he is their shepherd, ²⁴ And I, Yahweh, I am their Elohim, And My servant David prince in their midst, I, Yahweh, have spoken." ²⁵ And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests." ²⁶ And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are." ²⁷ And given has the tree of the field its fruit, And the land does give her increase, And they have been on their land confident, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh, In My breaking the bands of their yoke, And I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them." ²⁸ And they are no more a prey to nations, And the beast of the earth devours them not, And they have dwelt confidently, And there is none troubling." ²⁹ And I have raised for them a plant for renown, And they are no more consumed by hunger in the land, And they bear no more the shame of the nations." ³⁰ And they have known that I, Yahweh, their Elohim, [am] with them, And they--the house of Israel--My people, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." ³¹ And you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, Men you [are] --I [am] your Elohim, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh!'"

¹⁶ Lo! I am dispatching you as a sheep in the midst of wolves. Become, then, prudent as serpents and artless as doves."

⁶ All of us, as a flockling, have strayed; each man to his own way, we face, yet Yahweh, in Him, intercedes because of all our depravity."

¹⁵ Take heed of those false prophets who are coming to you in the apparel of sheep, yet inside they are rapacious wolves."

¹ Verily, verily, I am saying to you, he who is not entering through the door into the fold of the sheep, but is climbing up elsewhere, that one is a thief and a robber." ² Now he who is entering through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ To him the doorkeeper is opening, and the sheep are hearing his voice, and he is summoning his own sheep by name and is leading them out." ⁴ And whenever he should be ejecting all his own, he is going in front of them, and the sheep are following him, for they are acquainted with his voice." ⁵ Now an outsider will they under no circumstances be following, but they will be fleeing from him, for they are not acquainted with the voice of the outsiders." ⁶ Jesus told them this proverb, yet they know not what things they were that He spoke to them." ⁷ Jesus, then, said to them again, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that I am the Door of the sheep." ⁸ All whoever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not hear them." ⁹ I am the Door. Through Me if anyone should be entering, he shall be saved, and shall be entering and coming out and will be finding pasture." ¹⁰ The thief is not coming except that he should be stealing and sacrificing and destroying. I came that they may have life eonian, and have it superabundantly." ¹¹ I am the Shepherd ideal. The ideal shepherd is laying down his soul for the sake of the sheep. ¹² Yet the hireling, not also being shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, is beholding the wolf coming, and is leaving the sheep and fleeing. And the wolf is snatching them and is scattering the sheep." ¹³ Yet the hireling is fleeing for he is a hireling and he is not caring concerning the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the Shepherd ideal, and I know Mine and Mine know Me, ¹⁵ according as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And My soul am I laying down for the sake of the sheep." ¹⁶ And other sheep have I which are not of this fold. Those also I must be leading, and they will be hearing My voice, and there will be one flock, one Shepherd."

¹¹ I am the Shepherd ideal. The ideal shepherd is laying down his soul for the sake of the sheep.

³⁶ Now, perceiving the throngs, He has compassion on them, for they were bothered and tossed as if sheep having no shepherd."

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, is not leaving the ninety-nine in the wilderness and is going after the lost one, till he may be finding it? ⁵ And finding it, he is placing it on his shoulders, rejoicing." ⁶ And, coming into the house, he is calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice together with me that I found my sheep that was lost!'" ⁷ I am saying to you that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, more than over the ninety-nine just persons who have no need of repentance."

³ Know that Yahweh, He is Elohim; He it is Who has made us, and we are His. His people are we and the flock of His pasture."