And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are sucklings and nursers. If they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
To the chief musician. A Testimony. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You leading Joseph like a flock; shine forth, You dwelling between the cherubs.
And His people remembered the days past of Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought us up from the sea with the shepherd of His flock. Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him,
Hear the Word of Jehovah, O nations, and declare in the isles from far away, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd feeding his flock.
Behold! I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the recesses of the earth. Among them the blind one, and the lame one, the one being pregnant, and the one giving birth, together a great company, shall return here.
I will seek the lost, and I will return the banished. And I will bind up the broken, and I will make the weak strong. But I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with judgment.
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds Israel. Prophesy and say to them, to the shepherds, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those feeding Israel, who are feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?
And My Servant, David, shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.
And He shall stand and shepherd us in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He is great to the ends of the earth.
Shepherd Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your possession, dwelling alone in the thicket, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.
And I fed the flock of slaughter, the true humble one of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.
O sword, awake against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.
Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will shepherd them, and will lead them on the living springs of waters; and God will wipe off every tear from their eyes.