Psalms 87:1

Psalms 87:1

The Glories of the City of God

A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song.

1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

2 ^aThe Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3 ^aGlorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God! Selah

4 “I will make mention of¹ Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”

5 And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.”

6 The Lord will record,
When He ^aregisters the peoples:
“This one was born there.” Selah

7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
“All my springs are in you.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on Psalms 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation. (Psalms 87:1-7)

His—that is, God's

foundation—or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isaiah 14:32).

is in the holy mountains—the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Psalms 87:1:**

Numbers 26:11
Psalms 87:1
Isaiah 14:32
Isaiah 25:6
Daniel 9:24

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