Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
Open English Bible (US)
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 beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.
12Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20Then God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open dome of the sky.”
Psalms 104:12The birds have their home by the banks, and sing in the branches.
Matthew 6:26Look at the wild birds – they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! Aren’t you more precious than they?
Luke 12:24Think of the ravens – they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and yet God feeds them! And how much more precious are you than 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 →