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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Good News Translation

Psalms 50:10

all the animals in the forest are mine and the cattle on thousands of 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals 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.
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, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God. 8 I do not reprimand you because of your sacrifices and the burnt offerings you always bring me. 9 And yet I do not need bulls from your farms or goats from your flocks; 10 all the animals in the forest are mine and the cattle on thousands of hills. 11 All the wild birds are mine and all living things in the fields. 12 "If I were hungry, I would not ask you for food, for the world and everything in it is mine. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 14 Let the giving of thanks be your sacrifice to God, and give the Almighty all that you promised. 15 Call to me when trouble comes; I will save you, and you will praise 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 time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, "Please take this message to the king:
Genesis 50:11
When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, "What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!" That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.
Numbers 19:11
Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 1:1
In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.
Deuteronomy 34:8
The people of Israel mourned for him for thirty days in the plains of Moab.
1 Samuel 31:13
Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.
2 Samuel 1:17
David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
Job 2:13
Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.
Acts 8:2
Some devout men buried Stephen, mourning for him with loud cries.

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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