Psalm 96:5 {95:5}
Good News Translation
The gods of all other nations are only idols, but the LORD created the heavens.

New Revised Standard Version
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
Other nations worship idols, but the LORD created the heavens.

New American Bible
For the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

for

Psalm 115:3-8 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would. . . .

Psalm 135:15,18 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. . . .

Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

Isaiah 46:1,2 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised. . . .

Jeremiah 10:3-5,11,12,14,15 For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. . . .

Acts 19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

but

Psalm 115:15 Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Jeremiah 10:11 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

Context
Sing to the LORD, All the Earth
4For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. 5For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.6Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 89:11
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

Psalm 102:25
In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Psalm 115:15
Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Jeremiah 10:11
Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

Jeremiah 27:5
I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.

Psalm 96:4
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