Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 6:26Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye 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 →