I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
Parallel translations
- WEB I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
- KJV I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
- BSB I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
- NASB “I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
- NLT I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine.
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Quick answer
God knows every bird of the mountains, and all the wild creatures are His. Nothing in creation lies outside His ownership and care.
Overview
Continuing the theme of divine ownership, God claims even the birds and wild animals as His own and known to Him. His knowledge and possession extend to all creatures. This magnifies His self-sufficiency and providence, the same care Jesus invokes when He says not a sparrow falls apart from the Father.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Matt 6:26See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
- Gen 1:20–22God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
- Job 39:26–30“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
- Ezek 14:15–16“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
- Matt 10:29–31“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Isa 56:9All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.
- Job 39:13–18“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
- Ps 104:12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
- Job 38:41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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