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

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.

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

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 of sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them,the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation,who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land they did not stumble.Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the LORD granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.

“ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.“ 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– and I lay down my life for the sheep.I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.Many of them were saying,“ He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”Others said,“ These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked,“ How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”Jesus replied,“ I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.The Father and I are one.”The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.Jesus said to them,“ I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”The Jewish leaders replied,“ We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”Jesus answered,“ Is it not written in your law,‘ I said, you are gods’?If those people to whom the word of God came were called‘ gods’( and the scripture cannot be broken),do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘ You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘ I am the Son of God’?If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.Many came to him and began to say,“ John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”And many believed in Jesus there.

“ Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety- nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’

He brought his people out enriched with silver and gold; none of his tribes stumbled.

“‘ For this is what the sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the sovereign LORD.I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them– with judgment!“‘ As for you, my sheep, this is what the sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!“‘ Therefore, this is what the sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them– namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken!“‘ I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.They will no longer be prey for the nations and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely and no one will make them afraid.I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign LORD.And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign LORD.’”

So the LORD God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people:“ You have caused my people to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. I, the LORD, affirm it!Then I myself will regather those of my people who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. They will greatly increase in number.I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the LORD, promise it!

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!