Bible Verses About Shepherds: Tenderness to the ewes in lamb, and to the young

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.