Psalms 50:12
If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
In Context
11I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
13Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Exodus 19:5If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
Job 41:11Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
Psalms 104:24How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.
Psalms 145:15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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 →