Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 fulness thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
Job 39:13The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?
Psalms 104:12Beside them dwell the fowl of the heaven, from among the branches they sing.
Isaiah 56:9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
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 →