11 Like a shepherd he will shepherd his own drove.+ With his arm he will collect together the lambs;+ and in his bosom he will carry [them].+ Those giving suck he will conduct [with care].+

10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O YOU nations, and tell [it] among the islands* far away,+ and say: “The One scattering Israel will himself collect him together,+ and he will certainly keep him as a shepherd does his drove.+

12 According to the care of one feeding his drove+ in the day of his coming to be in the midst of his sheep that have been spread abroad,+ that is the way that I shall care for my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all the places to which they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick gloom.+

25 For YOU were like sheep, going astray;+ but now YOU have returned to the shepherd+ and overseer* of YOUR souls.*