Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

New American Standard Bible

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.

International Standard Version

You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.

A Conservative Version

For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

American Standard Version

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

Amplified


Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Bible in Basic English

For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt diminish him a little more than the messengers, and thou wilt surround him with glory and honor.

King James 2000

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and [with] glory and [with] majesty you crowned him.

Modern King James verseion

For You have made him lack a little from God, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou madest him lower than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship.

NET Bible

and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;

New Heart English Bible

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

The Emphasized Bible

That thou shouldst make him little less than messengers of God, with glory and honour, shouldst crown him?

Webster

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

World English Bible

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Youngs Literal Translation

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

References

Context Readings

God's Glory, Man's Dignity

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour. 6 Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:


Cross References

Genesis 1:26-27

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

Hebrews 2:7

Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast set him over the works of thy hands;

Hebrews 2:9

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

2 Samuel 14:29

Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent again the second time, but he would not come.

Job 4:18-20

Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

Psalm 21:3-5

For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.

Psalm 45:1-3

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:

Psalm 103:4

Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Psalm 103:20

Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

John 13:31-32

When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Ephesians 1:21

above every principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in that to come;

Philippians 2:7-11

but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;

Hebrews 2:16

For he does not indeed take hold of angels by the hand, but he takes hold of the seed of Abraham.

1 Peter 1:20-21

foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

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