Psalms 50:11
Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.
Catholic Public Domain 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
12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20And then God said, “Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven.”
Job 39:13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
Psalms 104:12Though they may have been but a small number, very few and foreigners there,
Isaiah 56:9All beasts of the field, all the beasts of the forest: approach and devour!
Matthew 6:26Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap; there is no storehouse or barn for them. And yet God pastures them. How much more are you, compared to them?
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 →