Psalms 87

1 Of the Korahites, a psalm. A song. On the holy mountain stands the city he founded.

A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Core. His foundations are in the holy mountains.

2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Glorious things he is speaking of you, you city of God. (Selah)

Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. (Pause)

4 ‘Among those who are mine I name Rahab and Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, their people will say I was born in Zion.

I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.

5 As for Zion it will be said each and all were born in her.’ The Lord will preserve her.

A man shall say, Sion [is my] mother; and [such] a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her.

6 The Lord will count, when enrolling the peoples, ‘This one was born there, and that one was born there.’ (Selah)

The Lord shall recount [it] in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her.

7 Singers and dancers alike will say ‘All my springs are in you.’

The dwelling of all within you is [as the dwelling] of those that rejoice.