Psalms 50:12
If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'
Exodus 19:5'And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth [is] Mine;
Job 41:11Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.
Psalms 104:24How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.
Psalms 145:15The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to 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 →