I do not need to take ¹  a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

The Beloved about Her Lover: My lover is mine and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. ¹ 

Lambs ¹  will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze. ² 

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. ¹  The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

If the place he ¹  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he ²  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages ³  just as you wish.

They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion. They will be radiant with joy ¹  over the good things the Lord provides, the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil, the young sheep and calves he has given to them. They will be like a well-watered garden and will not grow faint or weary any more.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds ¹  of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah ¹  will take possession of it. ²  By the sea ³  they ⁴  will graze, in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord their God will intervene for them ⁵  and restore their prosperity. ⁶ 

But the land could ¹  not support them while they were living side by side. ²  Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live ³  alongside one another.

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled ¹  toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other. ² 

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, ¹  “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. ² 

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ¹  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Pharaoh said to Joseph’s ¹  brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.” ² 

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw ¹  water ²  and fill ³  the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

So when they came home ¹  to their father Reuel, ²  he asked, “Why have you come home so early ³  today?”

They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us ¹  from the shepherds, ²  and he actually ³  drew water for us and watered the flock!”

But Moses said, “Will you also ¹  provide us ²  with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them ³  to the Lord our God?

the land that the Lord subdued ¹  before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

You must give them the best of your ¹  grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.