Parallel Verses

Amplified


For all the gods of the peoples are [lifeless] idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.

New American Standard Bible

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.

King James Version

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Holman Bible

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.

International Standard Version

For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned 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 nothings: and Jehovah made the heavens.

King James 2000

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For all the gods of the nations [are] idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

Modern King James verseion

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Jehovah made the heavens.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For all the gods of the heathen are idols: But the LORD made heaven!

NET Bible

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the heavens.

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 people 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 gods of the peoples are nought, And Jehovah the heavens hath made.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For all the gods
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

of the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

אליל 
'eliyl 
Usage: 19

but the Lord

Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

David's Psalm Of Thanksgiving

25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
He is also to be feared [with awe-filled reverence] above all gods.
26 
For all the gods of the peoples are [lifeless] idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
27
Splendor and majesty are [found] in His presence;
Strength and joy are [found] in His place (sanctuary).



Cross References

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the Lord your God.

Psalm 102:25


“At the beginning You founded the earth;
The heavens are the work of Your hands.

Isaiah 42:5

This is what God the Lord says,

He who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk on it,

Isaiah 44:24

For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says this,

“I am the Lord, Maker of all things,
Who alone stretches out the heavens,
Who spreads out the earth by Myself,

Psalm 115:4-8


The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Isaiah 40:26


Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these heavenly bodies,
The One who brings out their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one is missing.

Isaiah 44:9-20

All who make carved idols are nothing. Their precious objects are worthless [to them], and their own witnesses (worshipers) fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Jeremiah 10:10-14


But the Lord is the true God and the God who is Truth;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
The earth quakes and shudders at His wrath,
And the nations are not able to endure His indignation.

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.

Revelation 14:7

and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God [with awe and reverence], and give Him glory [and honor and praise in worship], because the hour of His judgment has come; [with all your heart] worship Him who created the heaven and the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

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