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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 50:10

for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Forests;   Land;   Ownership, Divine;   Stewardship-Ownership;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;   Burnt Offering, the;   Forests;  

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;   Firstfruits;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Omniscience of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Herd;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Mount, Mountain;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Firstborn;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cattle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Behemoth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Number;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Behemoth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for every animal of the forest is mine,the cattle on a thousand hills.
Hebrew Names Version
For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
King James Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
English Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Century Version
because every animal of the forest is already mine. The cattle on a thousand hills are mine.
New English Translation
For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.
Amplified Bible
"For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
New American Standard Bible
"For every animal of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.
World English Bible
For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
Legacy Standard Bible
For every beast of the forest is Mine,The cattle on a thousand hills.
Berean Standard Bible
for every beast of the forest is Mine-the cattle on a thousand hills.
Contemporary English Version
Every animal in the forest belongs to me, and so do the cattle on a thousand hills.
Darby Translation
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
Easy-to-Read Version
I already own all the animals in the forest. I own all the animals on a thousand hills.
George Lamsa Translation
For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and the cattle and the oxen upon the hills.
Good News Translation
all the animals in the forest are mine and the cattle on thousands of hills.
Lexham English Bible
because every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Literal Translation
for every beast of the forest is Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For all the beestes of the felde are myne, and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles.
American Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Bible in Basic English
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
King James Version (1611)
For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
English Revised Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For alle the wyelde beestis of wodis ben myne; werk beestis, and oxis in hillis.
Update Bible Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Webster's Bible Translation
For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
New King James Version
For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Living Translation
For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Life Bible
For every animal among the trees is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Revised Standard
For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-10) For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
Revised Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Young's Literal Translation
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.

Contextual Overview

7 "Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra'el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God. 8 I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me. 9 I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens; 10 for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills; 11 I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High, 15 and call on me when you are in trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every: Psalms 8:6-8, Psalms 104:24, Psalms 104:25, Genesis 1:24, Genesis 1:25, Genesis 2:19, Genesis 8:17, Genesis 9:2, Genesis 9:3, 1 Chronicles 29:14-16, Job 40:15-24, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Daniel 2:38

cattle: Psalms 104:14, Genesis 31:9, Jonah 4:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:19 - possessor Joshua 8:27 - the cattle Psalms 16:2 - my goodness Psalms 148:10 - Beasts Isaiah 40:16 - nor Haggai 2:8 - General Matthew 21:3 - The Lord Luke 12:6 - and Luke 19:31 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 50:4
When the period of mourning was over, Yosef addressed to the household of Pharaoh: "I would like to ask a favor. Tell Pharaoh,
Genesis 50:11
When the local inhabitants, the Kena‘ani, saw the mourning on the floor of Atad they said, "How bitterly the Egyptians are mourning!" This is why the place was given the name Avel-Mitzrayim [mourning of Egypt], there beyond the Yarden.
Numbers 19:11
"Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, will be unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words Moshe spoke to all Isra'el on the far side of the Yarden River, in the desert, in the ‘Aravah, across from Suf, between Pa'ran and Tofel, Lavan, Hatzerot and Di-Zahav.
Deuteronomy 34:8
The people of Isra'el mourned Moshe on the plains of Mo'av for thirty days; after this, the days of crying and mourning for Moshe ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
Then they took their bones, buried them under the tamarisk tree in Yavesh and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 1:17
Then David pronounced this lament over Sha'ul and over Y'honatan his son,
Job 2:13
Then they sat down with him on the ground. For seven days and seven nights, no one spoke a word to him; because they saw how much he was suffering. At length, Iyov broke the silence and cursed the day of his [birth].
Acts 8:2
Some godly men buried Stephen and mourned him deeply.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For every beast of the forest [is] mine,.... By creation and preservation; and therefore he stood in no need of their bullocks and he goats;

[and the cattle upon a thousand hills; meaning all the cattle in the whole world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For 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 Hebrew will bear either construction. The former is most likely to be the meaning. The allusion is probably to the animals that were pastured in great numbers on the hills, and that were claimed by men. The idea is, that all - whether wild or tame - belonged to God, and he had a right to them, to dispose of them as he pleased. He was not, therefore, in any way dependent on sacrifices. It is a beautiful and impressive thought, that the “property” in all these animals - in all living things on the earth - is in God, and that he has a right to dispose of them as he pleases. What man owns, he owns under God, and has no right to complain when God comes and asserts his superior claim to dispose of it at his pleasure. God has never given to man the absolute proprietorship in “any” thing; nor does he invade our rights when he comes and claims what we possess, or when in any way he removes what is most valuable to us. Compare Job 1:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:10. Every 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?


 
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