Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
In Context
11I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:
13Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,—and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.
Exodus 19:5Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth;
Job 41:11Who hath forestalled me, that I may repay him? Under all the heavens, mine it is!
Psalms 104:24How thy works abound, O Yahweh! All of them—in wisdom, hast thou made, The earth is full of thy possession:—
Psalms 145:15The eyes of all, for thee, do wait, and, thou, givest them their food in its season.
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 →