Quotes about Sheep
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
— Hosea 12:12
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
— Joel 1:18
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
— Micah 2:12
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
— Zephaniah 2:6
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
— Zechariah 10:2
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
— Matthew 10:6
He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?
— Matthew 12:11
How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
— Matthew 12:12
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
— Matthew 15:24
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?
— Matthew 18:12
He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.
— Matthew 25:33
comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’
— Luke 15:6