He entrusted them to<n id="1" /> his servants, who divided them into herds.<n id="2" /> He told his servants, &#8220;Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Men<n id="1" /> move boundary stones;p> <p class="poetry">they seize the flock and pasture them.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet he brought out his people like sheep;p> <p class="poetry">he led them through the wilderness like a flock.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to the cattle groan!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The herds of livestock wander around in confusion<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they have no pasture.p> <p class="poetry">Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.p>

<p class="poetry">Pay careful attention to<n id="1" /> the condition of your flocks,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">give careful attention<n id="3" /> to your herds,p>

<p class="poetry">The cities of Aroer are abandoned.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be used for herds,p> <p class="poetry">which will lie down there in peace.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you remain among the sheepfolds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">listening to the shepherds playing their pipes<n id="2" /> for their flocks?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">As for the clans of Reuben &#8211; there was intense searching of heart.p>

He made storerooms for the harvest of grain, wine, and olive oil, and stalls for all his various kinds of livestock and his flocks.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Your teeth are like a flock of newly-shorn sheepp> <p class="poetry">coming up from the washing place;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">each of them has a twin,p> <p class="poetry">and not one of them is missing.p>

<p class="poetry">Turn your eyes away from me &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they overwhelm<n id="1" /> me!p> <p class="poetry">Your hair is like a flock of goatsp> <p class="poetry">descending from Mount Gilead.p>

<p class="poetry">Your teeth are like a flock of sheepp> <p class="poetry">coming up from the washing;p> <p class="poetry">each has its twin;p> <p class="poetry">not one of them is missing.p>

<p class="poetry">Like a shepherd he tends his flock;p> <p class="poetry">he gathers up the lambs with his arm;p> <p class="poetry">he carries them close to his heart;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he leads the ewes along.p>

<p class="poetry">Kings will come against it with their armies.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will encamp in siege all around it.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look up, Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> and seep> <p class="poetry">the enemy<n id="3" /> that is coming from the north.p> <p class="poetry">Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Where now are the &#8216;sheep&#8217; that you take such pride in?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its townsp> <p class="poetry">as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks.p> <p class="poetry">I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen.p> <p class="poetry">I used you to smash governors and leaders.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

He saw<n id="1" /> in the field a well with<n id="2" /> three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now<n id="3" /> a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they said, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water<n id="1" /> the sheep.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">David replied to Saul, &#8220;Your servant has been a shepherd for his father&#8217;s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Tell me, O you whom my heart<n id="1" /> loves,p> <p class="poetry">where do you pasture your sheep?p> <p class="poetry">Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat?p> <p class="poetry">Tell me lest<n id="2" /> I wander around<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">beside the flocks of your companions!p>