From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest put down the enemy and avenger.
Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus answers the indignant priests by citing Psalm 8:2 (21:16): 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise' (the LXX form 'perfected praise' rather than MT 'established strength'), legitimating the children's Hosanna as God-ordained praise.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The kingdom belonging to little children resonates with the Psalmist's 'out of the mouth of babes' as the locus of God's praise/strength; thematic only.
Low confidence