9 Bible Verses about Animals Going Astray

If thou should encounter thine enemy's ox or his ass astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them; thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. And even if thy brother is not kin unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shalt thou do with his clothing; and with any lost thing of thy brother's, which he has lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise; thou may not draw back from this.

And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. Then Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.

All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.

What do you think? If a man had a hundred sheep and one of them went astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that which is gone astray? And if so be that he finds it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that one than of the ninety-nine who did not go astray.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy slave; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.

For ye were as sheep that had gone astray, but are now converted unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

And if so be that he finds it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that one than of the ninety-nine who did not go astray.