Psalms 8:4

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Psalms 8:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

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Psalms 144:3

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Job 7:17

What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

Job 25:6

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Hebrews 2:6

But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Hebrews 2:7

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor

Hebrews 2:8

and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

Psalms 4:2

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies ? Selah

Psalms 80:17

Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Ezekiel 8:15

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

Matthew 8:20

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

Psalms 106:4

Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

Genesis 21:1

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Exodus 4:31

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Luke 1:68

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.