Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Job 39:13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
Psalms 104:12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing amongst the branches.
Isaiah 56:9All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.
Matthew 6:26See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable 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 →