Psalms 8:3
Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.
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Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
Exodus 8:19And the sorcerers said to Pharaoh: “This is the finger of God.” And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had instructed.
Deuteronomy 4:19Otherwise, perhaps lifting up your eyes to heaven, you might look upon the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error, you might adore and worship these things, which the Lord your God created for the service of all the nations, which are under heaven.
Job 25:3Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?
Job 36:24Remember that you are ignorant of his work, yet men have sung its praises.
Psalms 33:6Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 8:2-3
Glory of God in His Works. 1 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. The psalmist here sets himself to give to God the glory due to his name. Dr. Hammond grounds a conjecture upon the title of this psalm concerning the occasion of penning it. It is said to be upon Gittith, which is generally taken for the… Read the whole commentary →