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Psalms 8:5
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Psalms 8:5
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You have made them
[a]
a little lower than the angels
[b]
and crowned them
[c]
with glory and honor.
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Psalms 8:5 in Other Translations
KJV
5
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
ESV
5
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
NLT
5
Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
MSG
5
Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
CSB
5
You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalms 8:5 In-Context
3
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5
You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
6
You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7
all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
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2
1.
S
Genesis 1:26
2.
Psalms 21:5
;
Psalms 103:4
Footnotes
3
[a].
Or "him"
[b].
Or "than God"
[c].
Or "him"
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