Psalms 87

1 `The salm of the song of the sones of Chore. The foundementis therof ben in hooli hillis;

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

2 the Lord loueth the yatis of Sion, more than alle the tabernaclis of Jacob.

diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

3 Thou citee of God, with outen ende; gloriouse thingis ben seide of thee.

Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

4 I schal be myndeful of Raab, and Babiloyne; knowynge me. Lo! aliens, and Tyre, and the puple of Ethiopiens; thei weren there.

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

5 Whether a man schal seie to Sion, And a man is born ther ynne; and that man altherhiyeste foundide it?

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

6 The Lord schal telle in the scripturis of puplis; and of these princis, that weren ther ynne.

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

7 As the dwellyng `of alle that ben glad; is in thee.

Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.]