Psalm 8:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ Yet You have made him a little less than Elohim, And have crowned him with esteem and splendour.

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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.

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?

Psalm 8:5 Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of lives. And the man became a living being.

2 Samuel 14:29

Then Aḇshalom sent for Yo’aḇ, to send him to the sovereign, but he would not come to him. And he sent again the second time, but he would not come.

Job 7:17

What is man, that You should make him great, that You should set Your heart on him,

Psalm 103:20

Bless יהוה, you His messengers, Mighty in power, who do His Word, Listening to the voice of His Word.

Psalm 103:4

Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving-commitment and compassion,

Psalm 144:3

יהוה, what is man, that You should know him? Son of man, that You should think of him?

Psalm 45:6

Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; The sceptre of Your reign Is a sceptre of straightness.

Ephesians 1:21

far above all rule and authority and power and mastery, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

Hebrews 2:16

For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers, but He does take hold of the seed of Aḇraham.

Hebrews 2:7

“You have made him a little lower than Elohim. You have crowned him with esteem and respect, and set him over the works of Your hands.

Hebrews 2:9

But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, יהושע, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone.