Psalms 87

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

Filiis Core, Psalmus Cantici. Fundamenta eius in montibus sanctis:

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

diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob.

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

Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei.

4 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.