Psalms 50:12
What does Psalms 50:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 50:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
KJV
King James Version · 1611If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine <FI>is<Fi> the world and its fulness.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
- Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Psalms 104:24
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
- Job 41:11
Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
- 1 Corinthians 10:26
for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
- Psalms 24:1
The earth is Jehovah’s, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.
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