Parallel Verses
Amplified
For all the gods of the peoples are [worthless, lifeless] idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Holman Bible
but the Lord made the heavens.
International Standard Version
For all the gods of the nations are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
A Conservative Version
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but LORD made the heavens.
American Standard Version
For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.
Bible in Basic English
For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
Darby Translation
For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.
Julia Smith Translation
For all the gods of the peoples are nothings: and Jehovah made the heavens:
King James 2000
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For all the gods of the peoples [are] idols, but Yahweh made [the] heavens.
Modern King James verseion
For all the gods of the nations are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for all the gods of the Heathen, they are but Idols, but it is the LORD that made the heavens. {TYNDALE: For all the gods of the heathen are Idols; But the LORD made the heavens.}
NET Bible
For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the sky.
New Heart English Bible
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
The Emphasized Bible
For, all the gods of the peoples, are things of nought - But, Yahweh, made, the heavens.
Webster
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
World English Bible
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
Youngs Literal Translation
For all the gods of the peoples are nought, And Jehovah made the heavens.
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 96:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh The King Comes In Judgment
4
For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are [worthless, lifeless] idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before Him;
Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 115:15
May you be blessed of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 42:5
This is what God the Lord says,
Who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk on it,
Jeremiah 10:11-12
In this manner you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God (
Psalm 115:3-8
But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
Psalm 135:18
Those who make idols are like them [absolutely worthless—spiritually blind, deaf, and powerless];
So is everyone who trusts in and relies on them.
Isaiah 44:8-28
‘Do not tremble nor be afraid [of the violent upheavals to come];
Have I not long ago proclaimed it to you and declared it?
And you are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
There is no other Rock;
I know of none.’”
Isaiah 46:1-2
Their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle.
Your burdens [of idols] are loaded [on them],
Burdens on the weary animals.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility];
It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god],
The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.
Jeremiah 10:14-15
Every man has become [like a brute] irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God];
Every goldsmith is shamed by his carved idols;
For his molten images are frauds and lies,
And there is no breath in them.
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost all over [the province of] Asia, this Paul has persuaded [people to believe his teaching] and has misled a large number of people, claiming that gods made by [human] hands are not really gods at all.
1 Corinthians 8:4
In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.