Psalms 50:12
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 mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
- KJV
- If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- WEB
- If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
- ASV
- If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- DARBY
- If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- BLB
- If I were hungry, I would not say [it] to you, for the world and its fullness [is] to Me.
- ÅB
- Om jeg hungret, ville jeg ikke si det til deg; for meg hører jorderike til og alt det som fyller det.
- OTB
- Om Jeg var sulten, ville Jeg ikke si det til deg,
For verden er Min, og alt den rommer. - B1930
- Om jeg hungret, vilde jeg ikke si det til dig; for mig hører jorderike til og alt det som fyller det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Read in contextPsalms 24:1–2
The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:26–28
For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
Read in contextJob 41:11
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Read in contextPsalms 115:15–16
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Read in contextPsalms 145:15–16
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Read in contextGenesis 8:17
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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