Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
12If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over 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 104:12Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.
Isaiah 56:9All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.
Matthew 6:26Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?
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 →