Psalm 96:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

When God began to create the heavens and the earth,

Psalm 115:15

May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 135:15

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Psalm 135:18

Those who make them and all who trust them shall become like them.

Psalm 8:4

what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Isaiah 41:29

No, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their images are empty wind.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”