Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 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?
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I would command or dispose them at my pleasure, without thy leave or assistance, even the cattle which feed upon innumerable hills, or in valleys and fields.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) A thousand hills.Literally, mountains of a thousand, an expression for which there is no analogy, but which might conceivably mean, mountains where the cattle are by thousands; but surely the LXX. and Vulg. are right here, in rendering oxen instead of a thousand, and we should read hills of oxen.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 50:10 For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Ver. 10. For every beast of the forest is mine ] God is the great proprietary; and all is his by primitive right. It is but of his own, therefore, that any man giveth him aught; as David freely acknowledgeth, 1Ch 29:14 ; and that great emperor, who, dedicating his rich communion table to Jesus Christ, wrote upon it , Thine own, and of thine own, Lord, present we unto thee (Justinian apud Cedren.). And yet vain man is apt to conceit that God is obliged unto him when he offereth unto God any part of his goods.
And the cattle upon a thousand hills
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
every: Psa 8:6-8, Psa 104:24, Psa 104:25, Gen 1:24, Gen 1:25, Gen 2:19, Gen 8:17, Gen 9:2, Gen 9:3, 1Ch 29:14-16, Job 40:15-24, Jer 27:5, Jer 27:6, Dan 2:38
cattle: Psa 104:14, Gen 31:9, Jon 4:11
Reciprocal: Gen 14:19 – possessor Jos 8:27 – the cattle Psa 16:2 – my goodness Psa 148:10 – Beasts Isa 40:16 – nor Hag 2:8 – General Mat 21:3 – The Lord Luk 12:6 – and Luk 19:31 – the Lord
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
50:10 {i} For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
(i) Though he delighted in sacrifice, yet he had no need for man’s help in it.