Psalms 8:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 8:5

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

KJV

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WEB

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

ASV

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Messianic PsalmsSon of Man dominion — Heb 2:6-9 applies to Christ.

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Hebrews 2:7
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
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 he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Psalms 103:4
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Philippians 2:7–11
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

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He is but for a little while lower than the angels, while his great soul is cooped up in a house of clay, but the children of the resurrection shall be isangeloi -- angels' peers ( Luke xx. 36 ) and no longer lower than they. (2.) He is endued with noble faculties and capacities: Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When we are observing the glory of God in the kingdom of nature and providence we should be led by that, and through that, to the contemplation of his glory in the kingdom of grace.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This psalm is, in the New Testament, applied to Christ and the work of our redemption which he wrought out; the honour given by the children of men to him (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Crowned - Man, fallen and lost man: who is actually restored to glory and dominion in Christ his head and representative, who received this crown and dominion for man's good, and in his stead; which he will in due time communicate to his members. And so the two expositions of this place concerning mankind and concerning Christ, may be reconciled.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

In a modified sense, in his present fallen state, man is still invested with some remains of this original dominion. It is very evident, however, by the apostle's inspired expositions (Heb 2:6-8; 1Co 15:27, 28) that the language here employed finds its fulfilment only in the final exaltation of Christ's human nature.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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