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The Mighty One Calls

Psalms 50:12

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, || For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
YLT
If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
DBY
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
DRC49:12
If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
GNV
If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
JPS
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
LXXE49:12
If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־אֶ֭רְעַב לֹא־אֹ֣מַר לָ֑ךְ כִּי־לִ֥י תֵ֝בֵ֗ל וּמְלֹאָֽהּ׃
LXX-Br49:12
Ἐὰν πεινάσω, οὐ μή σοι εἴπω, ἐμὴ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ οἰκουμένη καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
  • Deuteronomy 10:14Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
  • Psalms 24:1–2The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:26–28for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone tells you, “This…
  • Job 41:11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
  • Psalms 115:15–16May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
  • Psalms 145:15–16The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Genesis 1:28–30God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.” Then God said,…
  • Genesis 8:17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
  • Genesis 1:11–12Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants…
  • Psalms 104:24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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