Psalm 119:176

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Summary

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Gone astray

Seek

Bible References

Gone astray

rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent."

Tell me, if a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine sheep on the hills and go in search of the one that has strayed?

"Which of you with a hundred sheep, if he loses one, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one till he finds it?

I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.

You were astray like sheep, but you have come back now to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Seek

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.