9 Bible Verses about Animals Going Astray

"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him

"You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.

And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

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

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.