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Psalms 50:10

For alle the wyelde beestis of wodis ben myne; werk beestis, and oxis in hillis.

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.
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.
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 Mi puple, here thou, and Y schal speke to Israel; and Y schal witnesse to thee, Y am God, thi God. 8 I schal not repreue thee in thi sacrifices; and thi brent sacrifices ben euere bifor me. 9 I schal not take calues of thin hows; nethir geet buckis of thi flockis. 10 For alle the wyelde beestis of wodis ben myne; werk beestis, and oxis in hillis. 11 I haue knowe alle the volatils of heuene; and the fairnesse of the feeld is with me. 12 If Y schal be hungry, Y schal not seie to thee; for the world and the fulnesse therof is myn. 13 Whether Y schal eete the fleischis of boolis? ethir schal Y drynke the blood of geet buckis? 14 Offre thou to God the sacrifice of heriyng; and yelde thin avowis to the hiyeste God. 15 And inwardli clepe thou me in the dai of tribulacioun; and Y schal delyuere thee, and thou schalt onoure 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 whanne the tyme of weiling was fillid, Joseph spak to the meyne of Farao, If Y haue founde grace in youre siyt, speke ye in the eeris of Farao; for my fadir chargide me,
Genesis 50:11
And whanne the dwellers of the lond of Canaan hadden seyn this, thei seiden, This is a greet weiling to Egipcians; and therfor thei clepiden the name of that place the weilyng of Egipt.
Numbers 19:11
He that touchith a deed bodi of man, and is vncleene for this bi seuene daies,
Deuteronomy 1:1
These ben the wordis whiche Moyses spak to al Israel ouer Jordan, in the wildirnesse of the feeld, ayens the reed see, bitwix Pharan and Tophel and Laban and Asseroth, where is ful myche gold,
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the sones of Israel biwepten hym thretti daies in the feeldi places of Moab; and the daies of weilyng of men `bymorenynge Moises weren fillid.
1 Samuel 31:13
And thei token the boonus of hem, and birieden in the wode of Jabes, and fastiden bi seuene daies.
2 Samuel 1:17
Forsooth Dauid biweilide sych a weilyng on Saul, and on Jonathas, his sone;
Job 2:13
And thei saten with hym in the erthe seuene daies and seuene nyytis, and no man spak a word to hym; for thei sien, that his sorewe was greet.
Acts 8:2
But good men birieden Steuene, and maden greet mornyng on hym.

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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