Psalms 96:5
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
KJV
Montes sicut cera fluxerunt a facie Domini ; a facie Domini omnis terra.
Vulgate
τὰ ὄρη ἐτάκησαν ὡσεὶ κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου Κυρίου, ἀπὸ προσώπου Κυρίου πάσης τῆς γῆς.
LXX
For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.
ASV
כִּ֤י כָּל אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָ/עַמִּ֣ים אֱלִילִ֑ים וַֽ֝/יהוָ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם עָשָֽׂה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱלִילִ֑ים
'lylym
noun · 20×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 3 passages
Chapter 29.—What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue Them from the Fury of Their Enemies. The whole family of God, most high and most true, has therefore a consolation of its own,—a consolation which cannot deceive, and which has in it a surer hope than the tottering and falling affairs of earth can af…
Chapter 23.—That the Name of Gods is Falsely Given to the Gods of the Gentiles, Though Scripture Applies It Both to the Holy Angels and Just Men. If the Platonists prefer to call these angels gods rather than demons, and to reckon them with those whom Plato, their founder and master, maintains were created by the supreme God,362362 Timæus. they are welcome to do so, for I will …
Chapter 23.—Porphyry’s Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the gods Concerning Christ. For in his book called ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας, in which he collects and comments upon the responses which he pretends were uttered by the gods concerning divine things, he says—I give his own words as they have been translated from the Greek: “To one who inquired what god he should…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- 2Chr 25:15 — Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own p
- Gen 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Isa 42:5 — Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit
- Jer 10:11 — Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Jer 10:11 — Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Lev 19:4 — Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
- Ps 102:25 — Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
- Ps 115:15 — Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
- Ps 115:15 — Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
- Ps 135:18 — They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.