Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:11 in other translations
| BSB | I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. |
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| WEB | I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. |
| ASV | I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
| YLT | I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me. |
| DARBY | I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine: |
| BBE | I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. |
| Webster | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
What does Psalms 50:11 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…
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 50:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 50:11
- Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Genesis 1:20-22
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Job 39:26-30
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. …
- Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Matthew 10:29-31
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
- Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
- Psalms 104:12
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
- Ezekiel 14:15-16
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
- Isaiah 56:9
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
- Job 39:13-18
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; …
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Context
- 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 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 50:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Conozco todas las aves de los montes, y en mi poder están las fieras del campo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je connais tous les oiseaux des montagnes, et ce qui se meut par les champs est à moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich kenne alles Gevögel der Berge, und das Wild des Gefildes ist mir bekannt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele. |