Bible Verses About Sheep

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout--yea, they sing!

An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,

From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.

And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!

And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock.

O mountains, ye skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock!

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Our garners are full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.

Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

Thy teeth as a row of the shorn ones That have come up from the washing, For all of them are forming twins, And a bereaved one is not among them.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,

And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.

And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

All the flock of Kedar are gathered to thee, The rams of Nebaioth do serve thee, They ascend for acceptance Mine altar, And the house of My beauty I beautify.

And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.

A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.