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Psalms 50:10
10for every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
- New International Version (NIV)for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Context of Psalms 50:10
8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or for your burnt offerings, which are continually before me. 9I will not take a bull from your household or male goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 11I know every bird of the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and everything in it is mine.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:10 word by word
כִּי־לִ֥י כָל־חַיְתוֹ־יָ֑עַר בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת בְּהַרְרֵי־אָֽלֶף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 50:10
- Psalms 8:6You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
- Psalms 104:24How countless are your works, Lord! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
- Genesis 1:24Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- Genesis 2:19The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 8:17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you — birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth — and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.
- Job 40:15Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like cattle.
- Jeremiah 27:5“By my great strength and outstretched arm, I made the earth, and the people, and animals on the face of the earth. I give it to anyone I please.
- Daniel 2:38Wherever people live — or wild animals, or birds of the sky — he has handed them over to you and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.
- Psalms 104:14He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,
- Genesis 31:9God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.
- Jonah 4:11So may I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than a hundred twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”
Commentaries on Psalms 50:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Every beast of the forest is mine - Can ye suppose that ye are laying me under obligation to you, when ye present me with a part of my own property?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10For every beast of the forest is mine - All the beasts that roam at large in the wilderness; all that are untamed and unclaimed by man. The idea is, that even if God “needed” such offerings, he was not dependent on them - for the numberless beasts that roamed at large as his own would yield an ample supply. And the cattle upon a thousand hills - This may mean either the cattle that roamed by thousands on the hills, or the cattle on numberless hills. The…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-15Verses 7-15 To obey is better than sacrifice, and to love God and our neighbour better than all burnt-offerings. We are here warned not to rest in these performances. And let us beware of resting in any form. God demands the heart, and how can human inventions please him, when repentance, faith, and holiness are neglected? In the day of distress we must apply to the Lord by fervent prayer. Our troubles, though we see them coming from God's hand, must…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10the cattle on a thousand hills: God has no needs because he owns everything.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-158-15. However scrupulous in external worship, it was offered as if they conferred an obligation in giving God His own, and with a degrading view of Him as needing it [Psa 50:9-13]. Reproving them for such foolish and blasphemous notions, He teaches them to offer, or literally, "sacrifice," thanksgiving, and pay, or perform, their vows--that is, to bring, with the external symbolical service, the homage of the heart, and faith, penitence, and love. To this…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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