Psalm 96:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

IN THE beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth. [Heb. 11:3.]

Psalm 115:15

May you be blessed of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth!

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; so is everyone who trusts in and relies on them. [Ps. 115:4-8.]

Psalm 8:4

What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?

Isaiah 41:29

Behold, these [pagan prophets and priests] are all emptiness (falseness and futility)! Their works are worthless; their molten images are empty wind (confusion and waste).

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God the Lord–He Who created the heavens and stretched them forth, He Who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, He Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Acts 19:26

Now you notice and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over [the province of] Asia this Paul has persuaded and induced people to believe his teaching and has alienated a considerable company of them, saying that gods that are made with 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 (has no real existence) and that there is no God but one. [Deut. 6:4.]