Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. He sent a second time, but Joab would not come.
What are humans, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,
Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, obedient to his spoken word.
who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
O Lord, what are humans that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them?
Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come.
For it is clear that he did not come to help angels but the descendants of Abraham.
You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor,
but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.