Psalms 87

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:

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

2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

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

3 Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

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

4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.

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.

5 Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

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

6 The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

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

7 For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

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