Shepherd: One Who Cares for Flocks of Sheep

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock. …

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

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.