Psalms 96:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.”
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“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For all the gods of the peoples <FI>are<Fi> nought, And Jehovah made the heavens.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 96:5 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
- Psalms 115:15May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Psalms 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Isaiah 41:29See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 42:5This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- Isaiah 44:8Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
- Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
- Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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