Show me, O Lord, your mercy, and delight my heart with it.

Let me find you whom I so longingly seek.

See, here is the man whom the robbers seized, mishandled,

    and left half dead on the road to Jericho.

O kind hearted Samaritan, come to my aid!

I am the sheep who wandered into the wilderness – seek after me,

    and bring me home again to your fold.

Do with me what you will, that I may stay by you all the days of my life,

    and praise you with all those who are with you in heaven for all eternity.

 

 

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I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.