Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageFrom the lips of children and nursing infants You have ordained praise, because of Your enemies—silencing the foe and the one bent on revenge.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFrom the mouths of babes and sucklings You have founded a stronghold, on account of Your foes—to silence the enemy and the avenger.
KJV
King James VersionOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFrom the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
Footnotes
*Oz* in Hebrew means strength, might, or fortress — a word of military and structural force (*yissadta oz* = you have founded a stronghold). The LXX, however, rendered it *ainon* (praise), which is the reading cited by Yeshua in Matt. 21:16 when children cry out in the Temple courts. This creates a genuine and theologically rich divergence: the Hebrew casts weak infant voices as a *fortification* that undoes God's enemies — an ironic reversal of power; the Greek/NT trajectory reads it as *praise* itself being the weapon. FOG follows the Hebrew *oz* as *stronghold*; FOG Message leans into the LXX and New Testament reading, rendering it *ordained praise* to carry the Temple-echo forward.