Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 50:12 in other translations
| BSB | If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. |
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| WEB | If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. |
| ASV | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
| YLT | If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine is the world and its fulness. |
| DARBY | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
| BBE | If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth. |
| Webster | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. |
What does Psalms 50:12 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
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
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 50:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 50:12
- Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
- Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
- Psalms 24:1-2
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
- 1 Corinthians 10:26-28
For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof. If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
- Job 41:11
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
- Psalms 115:15-16
Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Psalms 145:15-16
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
- Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:28-30
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Psalms 104:24
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Genesis 1:11-12
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- 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 50:13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si yo tuviese hambre, no te lo diría á ti: porque mío es el mundo y su plenitud. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si j’avais faim, je ne te le dirais pas; car le monde est à moi, et tout ce qu’il contient. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn mich hungerte, ich würde es dir nicht sagen: denn mein ist der Erdkreis und seine Fülle. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cor mundum crea in me, Deus, et spiritum rectum innova in visceribus meis. |