Section 176
4 passages
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Vers. 176. I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.
Vers. 176. I haue gone astray like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commaundements.
HE compareth himself to a sheep, which of all other is most simple, and standeth in most need of a guide: so that here he confesseth his need of a guider: and this appeareth in that there is a continual comparison of a sheep, & shepherd in the Scriptures. Again, though a sheep go astray, yet it is soon called back by the voice of the shepherd: My sheep hear my voice. Thus David when he went against Nabal, was called back by the Lords voice in a woman: and when he had slain Uriah, he was brought again by Nathan. And therefore if we will be sheep, then though we sometime me go astray, yet we must be easily reclaimed.