Psalms 50:10

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
beast	חַיְתוֹ chay.tov-	H2416	alive · noun, common feminine singular construct
forest	יָ֑עַר Ya.'ar	H3293	a copse of bushes · noun, common masculine singular absolute
cattle	בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת be.he.Mot	H929	properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
thousand	אָֽלֶף 'A.lef	H505	hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alph… · noun, common both genders singular absolute
hills	בְּהַרְרֵי be.ha.rei-	H2042	a mountain · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 27:5-6 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto…
Psalms 8:6-8 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Psalms 104:24-25 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Daniel 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made…
Genesis 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kin…
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he wou…
1 Chronicles 29:14-16 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:7-15

God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient. I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in which they had avouched him to be their God, and he them to be his people, and so both parties were agreed (Psa 50:7): Hear, O my people! and I will speak. Note, It is justly expected that whatever others doe, when he speaks, his people should give ear; who will, if they do not? And then we may comfortably expect that God will speak to us when we are ready to hear what he says; even when he testifies against us in the rebukes and threatenings of his word and providences we must be forward to hear…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:8

However scrupulous in external worship, it was offered as if they conferred an obligation in giving God His own, and with a degrading view of Him as needing it [Psa 50:9-13]. Reproving them for such foolish and blasphemous notions, He teaches them to offer, or literally, "sacrifice," thanksgiving, and pay, or perform, their vows--that is, to bring, with the external symbolical service, the homage of the heart, and faith, penitence, and love. To this is added an invitation to seek, and a promise to afford, all needed help in trouble.

John Gill on Psalms 50:10

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.

John Calvin on Psalms 50:6-13

Psalm 50:6-13 6. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. Selah. 7. Hear, O my people! and I will speak; O Israel! and I will announce to thee: I am God, even thy God. 8. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings are continually before me. 9. I will take no calf out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. 10. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are at my command. 12. If I am hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, [246] and drink the blood…

The Church Fathers

All created things are under the providence of God. Does not even one sparrow fall without the Father who is in heaven knowing?
— Evagrius Ponticus, NOTES ON THE PSALMS 49[50].10

"For mine are all the beasts of the wood" [Psalm 50:10]. Why should I ask of you what I have made? Is it more yours, to whom I have given it to possess, than Mine, who have made it? "For mine are all the beasts of the wood." But perchance that Israel says, The beasts are God's, those wild beasts which I enclose not in my pen, which I bind not to my stall; but this ox and sheep and he-goat— these are my own. "Cattle on the mountain, and oxen." Mine are those which you possess not, Mine are these which you possess. For if you are My servant, the whole of your property is Mine. For it cannot be, that is the property of the master which the servant has gotten to himself, and yet that not be the property of the Master which the Master Himself has created for the servant. Therefore Mine are the beasts of the wood which you have not taken; Mine are also the cattle on the mountains which are yours, and the oxen which are at your stall: all are My own, for I have created them.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 50

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Asaph — Convener, or collector. (1.) A Levite; one of the leaders of David’s choir (1 Chr. 6:39). Psalms 50 and 73-83 inclusive are attributed to him. He is mentioned along with David as skilled in music,…
Psalms — The psalms are the production of various authors. “Only a portion of the Book of Psalms claims David as its author. Other inspired poets in successive generations added now one now another…
Animals · Belong to God — Belong to God
B · The property of God — The property of God
Burnt Offering, The · The most costly, no adequate tribute to God — The most costly, no adequate tribute to God
Forests · Infested by wild beasts — Infested by wild beasts
Formalism · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 50:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:7-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:8

John Gill on Psalms 50:10

John Calvin on Psalms 50:6-13

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 50:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:7-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:8

John Gill on Psalms 50:10

John Calvin on Psalms 50:6-13

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 50:7-15

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 50:10

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 50:10