Psalms 50:10

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

8You offer sacrifices and burnt offerings to me all the time but that is not why I speak against you. 9I do not need a bull from your farm, or goats from your fields. All the wild animals of the forest belong to me! All the cows on a thousand hills belong to me! 11I know every bird in the mountains, as well as all the insects. 12Even if I did become hungry, I would not tell you. All the world belongs to me, and everything that is in it.

Psalms 50:10 word by word

כִּי־לִ֥י כָל־חַיְתוֹ־יָ֑עַר בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת בְּהַרְרֵי־אָֽלֶף׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For every beastחַיָּהchay · living thingH2416
• of the forestיַ֫עַרya‛ar · woodH3293
• the cattleבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
• upon a thousandאֶ֫לֶף'eleph · thousandH505
• hillsהָרָרhârâr · mountainH2042

Cross-references for Psalms 50:10

• Psalms 8:6You have chosen them to rule everything that you have made. You have put everything under their authority.
• Psalms 104:24Lord, you have made very many different things! You were very wise in the way that you have made them all. The earth is full of the living things that you have made.
• Genesis 1:24God said, ‘Different kinds of animals will now appear on the land. There will be farm animals and wild animals. There will also be other small animals that move along the ground. There will be many kinds of animals and each kind will be different.’ And what God said happened.
• Genesis 2:19The Lord God took soil from the ground and he made all the animals and birds. He brought them to the man. God wanted to know what names the man would call them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.
• Genesis 8:17Bring every different kind of living animal out of the ship. Bring out the birds, the animals, and the living things that move across the ground. Now they may give birth to young ones again. They can grow in number all over the earth.’
• Genesis 9:2All the animals and all the birds will be afraid of you. You have authority over them. You also have authority over all the living things that move across the ground and all the fish in the sea.
• 1 Chronicles 29:14But I and my people are like nothing. How are we able to give all these gifts to help your work? Everything that we have comes from you. So we are giving back to you things that already belong to you.
• Job 40:15Listen! I created the monsters called Behemoth. I made you and I made them too. They eat grass, as cows do.
• Jeremiah 27:5I used my great power and strength to make this earth, as well as the people and the animals who live on it. I give these things that I have made to anyone that I choose.
• Daniel 2:38He has put all the people of this world, the wild animals and the birds under your power. He has given you authority to rule them all, in every place that they live. You are like the head of gold that you saw in your dream.
• Psalms 104:14You give grass for farm animals to eat. You give crops for people to plant. In that way, people get food from the ground.
• Genesis 31:9In this way God took away your father's animals, and he gave them to me.
• Jonah 4:11So it is right for me to be sorry about Nineveh. It is a great city. More than 120,000 people live in it. They cannot understand the difference between what is right and what is wrong. They also have many farm 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

Topics related to Psalms 50:10

• Animals
• Formalism
• Offerings

In the dictionaries

• Asaph
• Psalms
• Reprove
• Bible, the
• Korahites; Sons of Korah
• Number
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• Psalms, Book of
• Sacrifice

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