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what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?

Yet you have made them a little lower than God,[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honour.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Heb ben adam, lit. son of man
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or than the divine beings or angels: Heb elohim

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 have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,

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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 of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all 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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