What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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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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Footnotes

  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

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, yea, and 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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Footnotes

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

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy 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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