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Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
    you have established strength[a]
        on account of your adversaries,
in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.

When I look at the heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
        the moon and the stars that you established—
what is man that you take notice of him,
    or the son of man[b] that you pay attention to him?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:2 LXX reads praise
  2. Psalm 8:4 A title of Messiah (cf. Dan 7:13-14) or a Heb. synonym for a human being (cf. Dan 8:17)

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.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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