For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, {and} one shepherd.

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek {after them}.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: {but} I have not forgotten thy law. {bands: or, companies}

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of {his} good pleasure.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again 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 with judgment.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. {the upright...: or, they love thee uprightly}

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? {turn ye again: or, turn ye back} {elements: or, rudiments}

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {thus}; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed {to the yoke}: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou {art} the LORD my God.

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}

They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: {but} I have not forgotten thy law. {bands: or, companies}

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of {mine} house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten {them}:

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but {how} to perform that which is good I find not.

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away {on} the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. {restingplace: Heb. place to lie down in}

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.

And when he cometh home, he calleth together {his} friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, {even} I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

I {am} small and despised: {yet} do not I forget thy precepts.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? {the body...: or, this body of death}