Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 8:1-2

"O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger." — Psalms 8:1-2 (ASV)

The psalmist seeks to give to God the glory due to his name. How bright this glory shines, even in this lower world! He is ours, for he made us, protects us, and takes special care of us. The birth, life, preaching, miracles, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus are known throughout the world.

No name is so universal, no power and influence so generally felt, as those of the Savior of mankind. But how much brighter it shines in the upper world! We, on this earth, only hear God's excellent name and praise it; the angels and blessed spirits above see his glory and praise it; yet he is exalted far above even their blessing and praise.

Sometimes the grace of God appears wonderfully in young children. Sometimes the power of God brings about great things in his church, through very weak and unlikely instruments, so that the excellence of the power might more evidently appear to be of God, and not of man. He does this because of his enemies, so that he may put them to silence.