Psalmorum 87

1 Filiis Core, Psalmus Cantici. Fundamenta eius 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 Iacob.

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.’