---
title: Psalms 8:7
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/psalms-8-7/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/psalms-8-7.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Psalms 8:7
testament: OT
section: Poetry
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Psalms 8:7

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "All the flocks and cattle, As well as the wild animals"

## JW Usage

JWs cite Psalm 8:7 as part of the "all things have exceptions" defence. The Psalm continues the inventory of what is subject to mankind — and obviously this catalogue does not include God. By analogy, "all things" elsewhere in Scripture (especially Colossians 1:16) can also have natural, common-sense exceptions.

## Protestant Usage

The Hebrews 2 author quotes Psalm 8 about mankind, then in v8-9 pivots: "we do not yet see all things subject to him… but we see Jesus." The Psalm's catalogue of subjected things — flocks, cattle, wild animals, fish, birds — is universal in scope, but Hebrews 2 says we do not yet see this fulfilled in Adam. The fulfilment is in Jesus: "crowned with glory and honour" (v9), "Chief Agent of their salvation" (v10). The "exceptions" argument reads Psalm 8 isolated from its NT application; reading the passage Hebrews 2 actually builds upon makes Jesus the goal of Psalm 8, not a footnote within it.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [All Things Exist For and Through Jesus](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/hebrews2-all-things-subject.md) — Hebrews 2:5-10 [Deity of Christ]