12 Just as a shepherd looks after his flock during the day time while he is with them, so also I’m going to watch over my sheep, delivering them from every place where they’ve been scattered during the times of gloom and doom.
Ezekiel 34:12 Cross References - ISV
1 Samuel 17:34-35
Isaiah 40:11
11 Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep.”
Isaiah 50:10
10 Who among you fears the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant, who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.
Jeremiah 13:16
16 Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.
Jeremiah 31:10
10 Nations, listen to this message from the LORD, and declare it in the distant coastlands. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”
Ezekiel 30:3
3 For comes now the day— comes now the Day of the LORD, the day of clouds! The time of the gentiles is fulfilled!
Joel 2:1-3
1 The Warning of God “Sound the ram’s horn in Zion! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Tremble, all of you inhabitants of the land, because the Day of the LORD is coming. Oh, how near it is!
2 A day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains— a people strong and robust. Never has there been anything like it, neither will anything follow to compare with it, even through the lifetime of generation upon generation.”
3Joel’s Description of the Approaching Army“A fire blazes in their presence, and behind them a conflagration rages. Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden; after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland. Indeed, nothing escapes them.
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Amos 5:18-20
18 The Fearful Day of the LORD“Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It’s a day of darkness to you, and not light.
19 It will be like a man who runs from a lion, only to encounter a bear; or who comes home, leans his hand against a wall, and a serpent bites him!
20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light— pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?”
Zephaniah 1:15
15 That day will be filled with wrath, a day of trouble and tribulation, a day of desolation and devastation, a day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows,
Luke 15:4-6
4 “Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the 99 in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn’t he?
5 When he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders and rejoices.
6 Then he goes home, calls his friends and neighbors together, and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I’ve found my lost sheep!’
Luke 19:10
10 and the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”