Lamb and shepherd

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Ezekiel 34:21-22 provides a particularly poignant image of God the shepherd’s care for the “least of these”:

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged.