Psalms 8:4
For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
In Context
5What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
Cross References
Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
Genesis 19:35And then they gave their father wine to drink that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and slept with him. And not even then did he perceive when she lay down, or when she rose up.
Exodus 4:31and the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had looked with favor upon their affliction. And falling prostrate, they worshiped.
Job 7:17What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?
Psalms 4:2When I called upon him, the God of my justice heeded me. In tribulation, you have enlarged me. Have mercy on me, and heed my prayer.
Psalms 80:17And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:4-9
Condescension of God. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of… Read the whole commentary →