Psalms 8:4

Before the vast heavens, David asks why God would even think of frail man. It marvels at the undeserved attention God gives to humanity.

Cross-references · 18

• Job 7:17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
• Ps 144:3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
• Heb 2:6–9But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
• Ps 146:3Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
• Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
• 2 Chr 6:18“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
• Gen 21:1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
• Job 25:6How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”
• Matt 8:20Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
• Ps 106:4Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
• Ps 80:17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
• Isa 51:12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
• Ps 4:2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
• Exod 4:31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Luke 19:44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
• Isa 40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
• Ezek 8:15Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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