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Bible Verses About Sheep

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  1. Like sheep, they are destined for Sh'ol; death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning; and their forms will waste away in Sh'ol, until they need no dwelling.

  2. the meadows are clothed with flocks and the valleys blanketed with grain, so they shout for joy and break into song.

  3. A maskil of Asaf: Why have you rejected us forever, God, with your anger smoking against the sheep you once pastured?

  4. But his own people he led out like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.

  5. from tending nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Ya'akov his people, Isra'el his heritage.

  6. Then we, your people and the flock in your pasture, will give you thanks forever. From generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.

  7. But the needy he raises up from their distress and increases their families like sheep.

  8. the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

  9. Why, mountains, do you skip like rams; and you hills like young sheep?

  10. I strayed like a lost sheep; seek out your servant; for I do not forget your mitzvot.

  11. Our barns are full with crops of every kind; the sheep in our fields number thousands, tens of thousands.

  12. She procures a supply of wool and flax and works with willing hands.

  13. Tell me, my love, where you pasture your flock, where you have them rest at noon; for why should I veil myself [like a whore] beside the flocks of your friends?

  14. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep that have just come up from being washed; each of them is matched, and none of them is missing.

  15. When that day comes, a man will raise a young cow and two sheep.

  16. Will they produce in abundance? No, he will [have to] eat curdled milk. Indeed, everyone left in the land will eat curdled milk and [wild] honey.

  17. The wolf will live with the lamb; the leopard lie down with the kid; calf, young lion and fattened lamb together, with a little child to lead them.

  18. but instead, one sees joy and celebrating, killing of oxen, slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat, drinking of wine "Let's eat and drink now, because tomorrow we'll be dead!"

  19. We all, like sheep, went astray; we turned, each one, to his own way; yet ADONAI laid on him the guilt of all of us. Or: and in fellowship with him

  20. Though mistreated, he was submissive - he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

  21. All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered for you, the rams of N'vayot will be at your service; they will come up and be received on my altar, as I glorify my glorious house.

  22. Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, foreigners plow your land and tend your vines;

  23. The Sharon will be a pasture for flocks, the Akhor Valley a place for cattle to rest, for my people who have sought me.

  24. "Isra'el is a stray lamb, driven away by lions. First to devour him was Ashur's king; and the last to break his bones is this N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel."

  25. "I will drag them down like lambs to be slaughtered, like rams and male goats."