Psalmorum 87

1 Filiis Core. Psalmus cantici. [Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis;

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

2 diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

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

3 Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

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

4 Memor ero Rahab et Babylonis, scientium me; ecce alienigenæ, et Tyrus, et populus Æthiopum, hi fuerunt illic.

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

5 Numquid Sion dicet: Homo et homo natus est in ea, et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus?

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

6 Dominus narrabit in scripturis populorum et principum, horum qui fuerunt in ea.

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

7 Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.]

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