Psalms 8:2
From the mouths of infants and sucklings || You have founded strength, || Because of Your adversaries, || To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
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In Context
3For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, || [The] moon and stars that You established.
Cross References
Exodus 15:16Terror and dread fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm || They are still as a stone, || Until Your people pass over, O YHWH; Until the people pass over || Whom You have purchased.
1 Samuel 2:9He keeps the feet of His saints, || And the wicked are silent in darkness, || For man does not become mighty by power.
Psalms 44:16Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, || Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps, || My soul has bowed down, || They have dug a pit before me, || They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Psalms 148:13They praise the Name of YHWH, || For His Name alone has been set on high, || His splendor [is] above earth and heavens.
Isaiah 37:20And now, our God YHWH, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth know that You [are] YHWH, You alone.”
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 →