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Yet you made them only a little lower than God[a]
    and crowned them[b] with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—
the flocks and the herds
    and all the wild animals,
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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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

You have made them[a] a little lower than the angels[b](A)
    and crowned them[c] with glory and honor.(B)
You made them rulers(C) over the works of your hands;(D)
    you put everything under their[d] feet:(E)
all flocks and herds,(F)
    and the animals of the wild,(G)
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(H)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  3. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  4. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his