My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
Y’all are to keep watch over yourselves and all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made y’all overseers, to shepherd the church of God which ʜᴇ purchased with the blood of ʜɪꜱ own.
“What do y’all think? If a human owns one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t they leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go seek the one that wandered away?
Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “Y’all have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not attended to them. Look! I am about to attend to y’all for y’all’s evil deeds,” says YHWH.
“‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes, and do them.
“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says YHWH Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water,