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

And he saith unto him, `My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the suckling flock and the herd are with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died.

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I--I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.'

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