50:10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me,
as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. 1
50:11 I keep track of 2 every bird in the hills,
and the insects 3 of the field are mine.
50:12 Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all it contains belong to me.
1 tn Heb “[the] animals on a thousand hills.” The words “that graze” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The term בְּהֵמוֹה (bÿhemot, “animal”) refers here to cattle (see Ps 104:14).
2 tn Heb “I know.”
3 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word, which occurs only here and in Ps 80:13, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.