Psalms 100:2

"Serve Jehovah with gladness:

Come before his presence with singing.

Know ye that Jehovah, he is God:

It is he that hath made us, and we are his;

We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."

"No more appropriate words for the call to worship were ever written. An alternative reading for "and we are his" (Psalms 100:2), is, "and not we ourselves." This meaning is reflected in the second line of the second stanza of Kethe's poem, "Without our aid he did us make." The thought is accurate, whether or not it is justified in the text.

Furthermore, Rawlinson defended the reading as given in the KJV, "It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves," pointing out that the KJV reading is supported by both the Septuagint (LXX) and the Vulgate, and should certainly be retained, for it yields a better sense."[3]

The metaphor of God as the Good Shepherd, as presented in the Old Testament, became Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd in the New Testament. When Christ said, "I am the good shepherd," it was a claim of divinity as surely as anything he ever said.