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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Psalms 50:10

For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.

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.
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.
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 Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God. 8 I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me. 9 I will take no bullocke out of thy house, nor hee goates out of thy folds. 10 For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles. 11 I know all the foules of the mountaines: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof. 13 Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats? 14 Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high. 15 And call vpon mee in the day of trouble; I will deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie 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
And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake vnto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I haue found grace in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites sawe the mourning in the floore of Atad, they saide, This is a grieuous mourning to the Egyptians: wherfore the name of it was called, Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Iordan.
Numbers 19:11
He that toucheth the dead body of any man, shall bee vncleane seuen dayes.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These bee the woordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on this side Iordane in the wildernes, in the plaine ouer against the Red sea, betweene Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plaines of Moab thirty dayes: So the dayes of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
And they tooke their bones, and buried them vnder a tree at Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.
2 Samuel 1:17
And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne:
Job 2:13
So they sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a word vnto him; for they saw that his griefe was very great.
Acts 8:2
And deuout men carried Steuen to his buriall, and made great lamentation ouer him.

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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