Psalms 119:176

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ¹  Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Ps 119:61,93; So 1:4; Isa 53:6; Jer 31:18; Eze 34:6,16; Ho 4:6; Mt 10:6; Mt 15:24; Mt 18:12,13; Lu 15:4-7; Lu 19:10; Joh 10:16; Ga 4:9; Php 2:13; Jas 1:17; 1Pe 2:25

¹ tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).