Psalm 8:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 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.
3 When I behold thine heavens, even the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
4 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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- Psalm 8:2 Though the wicked would hide God’s praises, yet the very babes are sufficient witnesses of the same.
- Psalm 8:2 Or, established.
- Psalm 8:2 Or, confound.
- 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.
Psalm 8:2-4
New International Version
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold(A) against your enemies,
to silence the foe(B) and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,(C)
the work of your fingers,(D)
the moon and the stars,(E)
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[a](F)
Footnotes
- Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
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