Psalm 50:11 “I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are…”

Psalm 50:11

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

World English Bible

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

American Standard Version

I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

Geneva Bible 1599

I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

Darby Translation

I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

Young's Literal Translation

I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.

Bible in Basic English

I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.

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Cross references

“know”

Matthew 6:26 Genesis 1:20–22 Job 39:26–30 Luke 12:24 Psalm 104:12 Psalm 147:9

Matthew 6:26 · BSB

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Genesis 1:20–22 · BSB

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Job 39:26–30 · BSB

Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

Luke 12:24 · BSB

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

Psalm 104:12 · BSB

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 147:9 · BSB

He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

“wild”

Isaiah 56:9 Ezekiel 14:15 Ezekiel 14:16

Isaiah 56:9 · BSB

Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

Ezekiel 14:15 · BSB

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

Ezekiel 14:16 · BSB

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

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