I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
1 Peter 2:25 - King James 2000 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For you were going astray like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Guardian (the Bishop) of your souls. [Isa. 53:5, 6.] American Standard Version (1901) For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. Common English Bible Though you were like straying sheep, you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your lives. Catholic Public Domain Version For you were like wandering sheep. But now you have been turned back toward the Pastor and the Bishop of your souls. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls. |
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim – Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man gathers up: every man shall return to his own people, and flee everyone into his own land.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is close to me, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
How think you? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are wayward; for he himself also is beset with weakness.
Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.