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Psalms 50:10
10For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own 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 have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer. 9But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens. For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills. 11I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine. 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
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 gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority—
- Psalms 104:24O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.
- Genesis 1:24Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 2:19So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
- Genesis 8:17Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!
- Job 40:15“Take a look at Behemoth, which I made, just as I made you. It eats grass like an ox.
- Jeremiah 27:5With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.
- Daniel 2:38He has made you the ruler over all the inhabited world and has put even the wild animals and birds under your control. You are the head of gold.
- Psalms 104:14You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—
- Genesis 31:9In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
- Jonah 4:11But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?”
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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