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Psalms 50:10
10Every creature in the forest, ⌞even⌟ the cattle on a thousand hills, is mine.
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 am not criticizing you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are always in front of me. 9⌞But⌟ I will not accept ⌞another⌟ young bull from your household or a single male goat from your pens. Every creature in the forest, ⌞even⌟ the cattle on a thousand hills, is mine. 11I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine. 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, because the world and all that it contains are mine.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:10 word by word
כִּי־לִ֥י כָל־חַיְתוֹ־יָ֑עַר בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת בְּהַרְרֵי־אָֽלֶף׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:10
- Psalms 8:6You have made him rule what your hands created. You have put everything under his control:
- Psalms 104:24What a large number of things you have made, O Lord! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.
- Genesis 1:24Then God said, “Let the earth produce every type of living creature: every type of domestic animal, crawling animal, and wild animal.” And so it was.
- Genesis 2:19The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name.
- Genesis 8:17Bring out every animal that’s with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2All the wild animals and all the birds will fear you and be terrified of you. Every creature that crawls on the ground and all the fish in the sea have been put under your control.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I and who are my people that you enable us to give so generously? Everything comes from you. We give you only what has come from your hands.
- Job 40:15“Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. It eats grass as cattle do.
- Jeremiah 27:5‘I used my great strength and my powerful arm to make the earth along with the people and the animals on it. I give it to anyone I please.
- Daniel 2:38He has given you control over people, wild animals, and birds, wherever they live. He has made you ruler of them all. You are the head of gold.
- Psalms 104:14You make grass grow for cattle and make vegetables for humans to use in order to get food from the ground.
- Genesis 31:9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.
- Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I feel sorry for this important city, Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people in it as well as many animals. These people couldn’t tell their right hand from their left.”
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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