Psalms 8:2

from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

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Cross References

Psalms 44:16at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful.

Psalms 57:6They set a net for my feet, but in it was their own foot caught. Before me they dug a pit, but they fell into it themselves. Selah

Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted. Over heaven and earth is his glory.

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 →

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