Psalms 50:11
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
Young's Literal Translation
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 Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
12If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20And God saith, 'Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'
Job 39:13The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
Psalms 104:12By them the fowl of the heavens doth dwell, From between the branches They give forth the voice.
Isaiah 56:9Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.
Matthew 6:26look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?
Luke 12:24'Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye 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 →