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Psalms 50:11

I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;   Birds;   Burnt Offering, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Nature;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Beast;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Firstborn;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Birds;   Foreknow;   Wild Beast;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I know every bird of the mountains,and the creatures of the field are mine.
Hebrew Names Version
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
King James Version
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
English Standard Version
I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
New Century Version
I know every bird on the mountains, and every living thing in the fields is mine.
New English Translation
I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.
Amplified Bible
"I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
New American Standard Bible
"I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
World English Bible
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.
Legacy Standard Bible
I know every bird of the mountains,And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
Berean Standard Bible
I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
Contemporary English Version
I know all the birds in the mountains, and every wild creature is in my care.
Complete Jewish Bible
I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine.
Darby Translation
I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:
Easy-to-Read Version
I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.
George Lamsa Translation
I know all the fowls of the air; and the wild beasts of the desert are mine.
Good News Translation
All the wild birds are mine and all living things in the fields.
Lexham English Bible
I know every bird of the mountains, and every moving creature in the field is mine.
Literal Translation
I know all the birds of the mountains; and all moving in My fields are Mine;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes, and the wilde beastes of the felde are in my sight.
American Standard Version
I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Bible in Basic English
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
King James Version (1611)
I know all the foules of the mountaines: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
English Revised Version
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I haue knowe alle the volatils of heuene; and the fairnesse of the feeld is with me.
Update Bible Version
I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Webster's Bible Translation
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.
New King James Version
I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
New Living Translation
I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine.
New Life Bible
I know every bird of the mountains. And all things that move in the field are Mine.
New Revised Standard
I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-11) I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
Revised Standard Version
I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Young's Literal Translation
I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Contextual Overview

7 Heare O my people, and I wil speake: I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel, I am the Lorde, euen thy Lorde. 8 I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: [for that they be not] alway before me. 9 I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house: nor goates out of thy foldes. 10 For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles. 11 I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement. 12 If I be hungry, I wyll not tell thee: for the whole worlde is myne, and all that is therin. 13 Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates? 14 Offer vnto God prayse: and pay thy vowes vnto the most hyghest. 15 And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble: I wyll heare thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

know: Psalms 104:12, Psalms 147:9, Genesis 1:20-22, Job 38:41, Job 39:13-18, Job 39:26-30, Matthew 6:26, Matthew 10:29-31, Luke 12:24

wild: Isaiah 56:9, Ezekiel 14:15, Ezekiel 14:16

mine: Heb. with me

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:5 - all the earth Psalms 148:10 - Beasts Daniel 2:38 - the beasts Matthew 21:3 - The Lord Luke 12:6 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.
Genesis 24:6
To whom Abraham aunswered: beware that thou bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
Genesis 34:30
But Iacob sayde to Simeon & Leui: ye haue troubled me, and made me to be abhorred of the inhabitours of the land of the Chanaanite and the Pherezite: and I beyng fewe in number, they shall gather the selues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed.
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the corne floore of Atad, which is beyonde Iordane, and there they made a great and exceedyng sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seuen dayes.
Genesis 50:15
And when Iosephes brethren sawe that their father was dead, they saide: Ioseph may peraduenture hate vs, & rewarde vs againe all the euyll whiche we dyd vnto hym.
Genesis 50:19
To whom Ioseph sayde: Feare not, am I God?
Deuteronomy 3:25
I pray thee let me go ouer, and see the good lande that is beyonde Iordane, that goodly mountayne, & Libanon.
Deuteronomy 3:27
Get thee vp into the top of the hyll, & lift vp thyne eyes westwarde, northwarde, southwarde, and eastwarde, and beholde it with thyne eyes: for thou shalt not go ouer this Iordane.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are not these mountaynes on the other side Iordane, on that part of the way where the sunne goeth downe, in the lande of the Chanaanites, whiche dwell in the playne ouer against Gilgal besyde the groue of Moreh?
1 Samuel 6:18
And golden myce, accordyng to the number of al the cities of the Philistines [belongyng] to the fyue lordes, both of walled townes, and of townes vnwalled, euen vnto the great [stone] of Abel, whereon they set downe the arke of the Lorde vnto this day, in the fielde of Iehosua the Bethsamite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I know all the fowls of the mountains,.... God not only knows them, but takes care of them; not a sparrow fails to the ground without his knowledge, and all the fowls of the air are fed by him,

Matthew 10:29; and therefore needed not their turtledoves and young pigeons, which were the only fowls used in sacrifice;

and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine; which are mentioned in opposition to domestic ones, such as they had in their houses or folds,

Psalms 50:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I know all the fowls of the mountains - That is, I am fully acquainted with their numbers; their nature; their habits; their residence. I have such a knowledge of them that I could appropriate them to my own use if I were in need of them. I am not, therefore, dependent on people to offer them, for I can use them as I please.

And the wild beasts of the field are mine - Margin, “with me.” That is, they are before me. They are never out of my presence. At any time, therefore, I could use them as I might need them. The word rendered “wild beasts” - זיז zı̂yz - means any moving thing; and the idea here is, whatever moves in the field, or roams abroad. Everything is his - whether on the mountains, in the forest, or in the cultivated field.


 
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