Psalms 87

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

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

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

diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

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

Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.