Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
King James Version
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 bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Job 39:13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Psalms 104:12By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Isaiah 56:9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
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 →