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Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were weary and worn out, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Acts 20:29-31
I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
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Ezekiel 34:8
As I live”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,
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Jeremiah 23:2
“ Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I will attend to you because of your evil acts”— this is the Lord’s declaration.
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1 Kings 22 17
So Micaiah said: I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord said,“ They have no master; let everyone return home in peace.”
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2 Chronicles 18 16
So Micaiah said: I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord said,“ They have no master; let each return home in peace.”
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Isaiah 56:9
All you animals of the field and forest, come and eat!
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Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last one who crushed his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
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Zechariah 10:2-3
For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.My anger burns against the shepherds, so I will punish the leaders. For the Lord of Hosts has tended His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His majestic steed in battle.
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Zechariah 13:7
Sword, awake against My shepherd, against the man who is My associate— this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will also turn My hand against the little ones.
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Ezekiel 33:21
In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported,“ The city has been taken!”
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Numbers 27:17
who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”
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Ezekiel 34:28
They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the wild animals of the land will not consume them. They will live securely, and no one will frighten them.
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Ezekiel 33:28
I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.
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John 10:2
The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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Ezekiel 34:6
My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the whole face of the earth, and there was no one searching or seeking for them.
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Jeremiah 12:9-12
Is My inheritance like a hyena to Me? Are birds of prey circling her? Go, gather all the wild animals; bring them to devour her.Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before Me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.
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Jeremiah 50:6-7
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, guiding them the wrong way in the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.All who found them devoured them. Their adversaries said,“ We’re not guilty; instead, they have sinned against the Lord, their righteous grazing land, the hope of their ancestors, the Lord.”