The gods of the nations are idols— Things of nothing. Mudge. Vanities; things which have no substance or being. The words strength and beauty, or glory, in the next verse, are the very words by which the ark is described in Psalms 78:61.
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Psalms 96:5
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.