Psalms 50:10
because all the animals in the forest belong to me, and all the cattle on 1,000 hills also belong to me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
In Context
9But I do not really need you to sacrifice the bulls from your barns and the goats from your pens,
11I own and know all the birds and all the creatures that move around in the fields.
Cross References
Genesis 1:24Then God said, “I want various kinds of creatures to appear on the earth. There will be many kinds of ◄livestock/domestic animals►, creatures that scurry across the ground, and large wild animals.” And that is what happened.
Genesis 8:17Bring out with you all the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that scurry across the ground, in order that they can spread all over the earth and become very numerous.”
Genesis 31:9In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.
Job 40:15“Think also about the huge animals that live near the water. I made you, and I made them also. They eat grass, like oxen do.
Psalms 24:1The earth and everything in it belongs to Yahweh; all the people in the world belong to him, too,
Psalms 104:24Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things! You were very wise as you made them all. The earth is full of the creatures that you made.
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 →