But someone testified somewhere, saying,

“What is man, that you remember him,
    or the son of man, that you care for him?
You made him for a short time lower than the angels;
    you crowned him with glory and honor;[a]
    you subjected all things under his feet.[b]

For in subjecting all things,[c] he left nothing that was not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Several important manuscripts add “and placed him over the works of your hands” to the end of v. 7
  2. Hebrews 2:8 A quotation from Ps 8:4–6
  3. Hebrews 2:8 Some manuscripts have “subjecting all things to him”

But there is a place where someone(A) has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?(B)
You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor
    and put everything under their feet.”[b][c](C)

In putting everything under them,[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while
  2. Hebrews 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6
  3. Hebrews 2:8 Or You made him a little lower than the angels;/ you crowned him with glory and honor/ and put everything under his feet.”
  4. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  5. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  6. Hebrews 2:8 Or him