Psalms 8:3-9

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?^[a]

5 You have made them^[b] a little lower than the angels^[c]and crowned them^[d] with glory and honor.

6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their^[e] feet:

7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

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,

8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

1. S Genesis 15:5; S Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 89:11
2. S Exodus 8:19; S 1 Chronicles 16:26; S 2 Chronicles 2:12; Psalms 102:25
3. S Genesis 1:16; 1 Corinthians 15:41; Psalms 136:9
4. S 1 Chronicles 29:14; Job 7:17; Psalms 144:3; Hebrews 2:6
5. S Genesis 1:26
6. Psalms 21:5; Psalms 103:4
7. S Genesis 1:28
8. S Job 10:3; Psalms 19:1; Psalms 102:25; Psalms 145:10; Isaiah 26:12; Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 45:11; Hebrews 1:10
9. Hebrews 2:6-8*
10. S 1 Kings 5:3; 1 Corinthians 15:25,27*; Ephesians 1:22
11. Genesis 13:5; Genesis 26:14
12. S Genesis 2:19
13. Genesis 1:26
14. ver 1

[a]. Or "what is a human being that you are mindful of him," / "a son of man that you care for him?"
[b]. Or "him"
[c]. Or "than God"
[d]. Or "him"
[e]. Or "made him ruler . . . ;" / ". . . his"