God as Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.

Psalm 23:2-3

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Psalm 78:52

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

Psalm 79:13

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

Psalm 95:7

For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Psalm 100:3

Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Ezekiel 34:11-12

“‘For the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Ezekiel 34:15-16

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord GOD. “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’

Micah 5:4

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Matthew 9:36

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 18:12-13

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:14-15

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Hebrews 13:20-21

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 Peter 5:4

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”