From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,(A)
you have established a stronghold[a]
on account of your adversaries
in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I observe your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you set in place,(B)
what is a human being that you remember him,
a son of man[b] that you look after him?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 LXX reads established praise
  2. 8:4 Or a mere mortal

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