He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

他却领出自己的民如羊，在旷野引他们如羊群。

他却领出自己的子民如羊，在旷野引导他们如羊群。

他却领出自己的子民如羊，在旷野引导他们如羊群。

祂领出自己的子民，好像领出羊群，引领他们经过旷野，

他却把自己的子民领出来好像领羊群，在旷野引导他们像引导群畜一样。

他领出自己的子民如同领出羊群，在旷野引领他们如同引领畜群。

他卻領出自己的民如羊，在曠野引他們如羊羣。

他卻領出自己的子民如羊，在曠野引導他們如羊羣。

他卻領出自己的子民如羊，在曠野引導他們如羊羣。

祂領出自己的子民，好像領出羊群，引領他們經過曠野，

他卻把自己的子民領出來好像領羊群，在曠野引導他們像引導群畜一樣。

他卻領出了自己的人民、如羊一般，引導了他們如羊羣於曠野。

他領出自己的子民如同領出羊群，在曠野引領他們如同引領畜群。

引出其民如羊、導之於野、如羣羊兮、

導厥選民、譬彼群羊、經行曠野兮、

導引己民如導群羊、在曠野引之如引群畜、

惟於吾族。寵命獨降。牧之如羊。曠野之中。

But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

But he brought his people out like a flock. He led them like sheep through the desert.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.

But He led His own people out like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

But He made His own people go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way they should go.

Then he remembered the days of the past, the days of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?He made his glorious strength available at the right hand of Moses, divided the water before them to make an eternal name for himself,and led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble.Like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led your people this way to make a glorious name for yourself.

“ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care about the sheep.“ I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.But I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”Again the Jews were divided because of these words.Many of them were saying,“ He has a demon and he’s crazy. Why do you listen to him?”Others were saying,“ These aren’t the words of someone who is demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade.The Jews surrounded him and asked,“ How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”“ I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them.“ The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me.But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.I and the Father are one.”Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.Jesus replied,“ I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”“ We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered,“ but for blasphemy, because you— being a man— make yourself God.”Jesus answered them,“ Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods?If he called those to whom the word of God came‘ gods’— and the Scripture cannot be broken—do you say,‘ You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me.But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.Many came to him and said,“ John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”And many believed in him there.

“ What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

“‘ For this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I myself will search for my flock and look for them.As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and total darkness.I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own soil. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land.I will tend them in good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.I will tend my flock and let them lie down. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.“‘ As for you, my flock, the Lord GOD says this: Look, I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and goats.Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?Yet my flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied.“‘ Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over,I will save my flock. They will no longer be prey, and I will judge between one sheep and another.I will establish over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.“‘ I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous creatures from the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.I will make them and the area around my hill a blessing: I will send down showers in their season; they will be showers of blessing.The trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; my flock will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the power of those who enslave them.They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the wild creatures of the earth will not consume them. They will live securely, and no one will frighten them.I will establish for them a place renowned for its agriculture, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land. They will no longer endure the insults of the nations.Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.You are my flock, the human flock of my pasture, and I am your God. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’”

“ Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend my people: You have scattered my flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I am about to attend to you because of your evil acts”— this is the LORD’s declaration.“ I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them. They will no longer be afraid or discouraged, nor will any be missing.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

He protects his flock like a shepherd; he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them in the fold of his garment. He gently leads those that are nursing.

Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us, and we are his— his people, the sheep of his pasture.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care. Today, if you hear his voice: