¹⁷ To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

³⁴ And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

³⁶ But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

⁵ And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

¹⁷ Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

² Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.

² For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

¹⁰ Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

⁷ And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

¹³ So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.

²⁰ So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

²⁵ Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

⁹ I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

³ The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.

⁴ When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

²⁴ But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

⁶ But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

⁷ Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

¹⁶ Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.

² In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.