'Flocks' in the Bible
But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.
And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.
Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.