Psalm 8:5 {6}
Good News Translation
Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honor.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor.

Contemporary English Version
You made us a little lower than you yourself, and you have crowned us with glory and honor.

New American Bible
Yet you have made him little less than a god, crowned him with glory and honor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

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Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

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Psalm 103:20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.

Genesis 1:26,27 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

2 Samuel 14:29 He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would not come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not come to him,

Job 4:18-20 Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: . . .

Philippians 2:7,8 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. . . .

Hebrews 2:7,9 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands. . . .

Hebrews 2:16 For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

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Psalm 21:3-5 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones. . . .

Psalm 45:1-3,6 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. [2] My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. . . .

John 13:31,32 When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified; and God is glorified in him. . . .

Ephesians 1:21 Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

Philippians 2:9-11 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: . . .

Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

1 Peter 1:20,21 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you: . . .

Context
How Majestic is Your Name!
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:6And hast set him over the works of thy hands.…
Cross References
Hebrews 2:7
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands.

Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Psalm 21:5
His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.

Psalm 82:6
I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

Psalm 103:4
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

Zechariah 12:8
In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and the house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their sight.

Psalm 8:4
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