Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
In Context
10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Job 39:13The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Psalms 104:12By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation. They sing among the branches.
Isaiah 56:9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.
Matthew 6:26Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, because they do not sow, nor do they reap, for which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much ye are worth more than the birds.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:8-16
The Inefficacy of Legal Sacrifices. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not… Read the whole commentary →