Psalm 8:5 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

Common English Bible

⁵ You’ve made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man that thou visitest him?

English Standard Version 2016

⁵ Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:5 Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

2 Samuel 14:29

Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

Job 7:17

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Psalm 103:20

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, That do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

Psalm 103:4

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Psalm 144:3

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

Psalm 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: The sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

Ephesians 1:21

far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Hebrews 2:16

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

Hebrews 2:7

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honour, And didst set him over the works of thy hands:

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.