For the Lord is [a]great and much to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the people are [b]idols: but the Lord [c]made the heavens.

[d]Strength and glory are before him: power and beauty are in his Sanctuary.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 96:4 Seeing he will reveal himself to all nations contrary to their own expectation, they ought all to worship him contrary to their own imaginations, and only as he hath appointed.
  2. Psalm 96:5 Or, vanities.
  3. Psalm 96:5 Then the idols, or whatsoever made not the heavens, are not God.
  4. Psalm 96:6 God cannot be known, but by his strength and glory, the signs whereof appear in his Sanctuary.

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