Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For all the gods of the nations are false gods; 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.
Amplified
For all the gods of the peoples are [worthless, lifeless] idols,
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 the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 115:15
May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 42:5
God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
Jeremiah 10:11-12
This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
Psalm 115:3-8
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
Psalm 135:15
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Isaiah 44:8-28
Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Isaiah 46:1-2
Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
Jeremiah 10:3-5
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Jeremiah 10:14-15
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Acts 19:26
And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.