Out of the mouth [a]of babes and sucklings hast thou [b]ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest [c]still the enemy and the avenger.

When I behold thine heavens, even the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,

What is [d]man, say I, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:2 Though the wicked would hide God’s praises, yet the very babes are sufficient witnesses of the same.
  2. Psalm 8:2 Or, established.
  3. Psalm 8:2 Or, confound.
  4. Psalm 8:4 It had been sufficient, for him to have set forth his glory by the heavens, though he had not come so low as to man, which is but dust.

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