From Handel’s Messiah: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, everyone, to his own way.”1
From Psalm 23 (KJV): “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
From a hymn:
Savior, like a shepherd lead us,
much we need thy tender care;
in thy pleasant pastures feed us,
for our use thy folds prepare.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus!
Thou hast bought us, thine we are.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus!
Thou hast bought us, thine we are.2
From John 10:3-4 (NRSV): “The gatekeeper opens the gate for [the shepherd of the sheep] and the sheep hear his voice... and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.”
From John 10:7, 10 (NRSV): “I am the gate for the sheep... I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Ah, so bucolic. So serene, so restful — so grassy-field pasto…