Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:10 in other translations
| BSB | for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills. |
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| WEB | For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. |
| ASV | For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
| YLT | For Mine is every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. |
| DARBY | For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills; |
| BBE | For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. |
| Webster | For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
What does Psalms 50:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:8-15
8-15. 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 50:7-15
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…
Psalms 50:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 50:10
- Jeremiah 27:5-6
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
- Psalms 8:6-8
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
- Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Daniel 2:38
And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
- Psalms 104:24-25
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14-16
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
- Genesis 2:19
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- Genesis 1:24-25
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
- Genesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
- Genesis 9:2-3
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Job 40:15-24
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. …
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Context
- Psalms 50:9
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
- Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
- Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque mía es toda bestia del bosque, y los millares de animales en los collados. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car tout animal de la forêt est à moi, les bêtes sur mille montagnes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn mein ist alles Getier des Waldes, das Vieh auf tausend Bergen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Auditui meo dabis gaudium et lætitiam, et exsultabunt ossa humiliata. |