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what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?[a]
Yet you made them only a little lower than God[b]
    and crowned them[c] with glory and honor.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
  2. 8:5a Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim.
  3. 8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](A)

You have made them[b] a little lower than the angels[c](B)
    and crowned them[d] with glory and honor.(C)

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  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  3. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  4. Psalm 8:5 Or him

You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—
the flocks and the herds
    and all the wild animals,

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You made them rulers(A) over the works of your hands;(B)
    you put everything under their[a] feet:(C)
all flocks and herds,(D)
    and the animals of the wild,(E)

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  1. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
    and everything that swims the ocean currents.

O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

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the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(A)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!(B)

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