Psalms 50:11
I have known every bird of the mountains, || And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
Literal Standard 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
10For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, || The livestock on the hills of oxen.
12If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, || For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20And God says, “Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and let [the] bird fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.”
Job 39:13[The] wing of the crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?
Psalms 104:12The bird of the heavens dwells by them, || From between the branches || They give forth the voice.
Isaiah 56:9Every beast of the field, || Come to devour, every beast in the forest.
Matthew 6:26Look to the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father nourishes them; are you not much better than they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, that they do not sow, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God nourishes them; how much better are you 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 →