My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.