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Ezekiel 34:11 (Listen)

The Lord God Will Seek Them Out

11 “For thus says the Lord God: wBehold, I, I xmyself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

Ezekiel 34:16 (Listen)

16 fI will seek the lost, gand I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and hthe fat and the strong I will destroy.1 I will feed them in justice.

Footnotes

[1] 34:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over

Luke 15:4 (Listen)

d“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, eif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine fin the open country, and ggo after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Matthew 9:13 (Listen)

13 Go and learn iwhat this means, j‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For kI came not to call the righteous, lbut sinners.”

Matthew 10:6 (Listen)

abut go rather to bthe lost sheep of cthe house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24 (Listen)

24 He answered, k“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 18:12 (Listen)

12 jWhat do you think? kIf a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?