Psalms 8:2
+ 8:2 Matt 21:16 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you perfected praise, because of your enemies; that you might put down the enemy and avenger. 1
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Exodus 15:16Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm, let them become as stone; till your people pass over, O Lord, till this your people pass over, whom you have purchased.
1 Samuel 2:9granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength can’t man prevail.
Psalms 44:16Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth. 1
Psalms 57:6God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions. 1
Psalms 148:13let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted; his praise is above the earth and heaven, 1
Isaiah 37:20But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that you are God 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 →