Psalms 87

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

The city that Yahweh established is on his sacred hill.

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

He loves that city, Jerusalem, more than he loves any other city in Israel.

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

[You people in] [APO] the city that God (owns/lives in), people say wonderful things about your city.

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.

[Some of those who know about God are the people of] Egypt and Babylonia, and also [the people of] Philistia and Tyre and Ethiopia; [some day they all] will say, “[Although I was not born in Jerusalem], [because I belong to Yahweh, it is as though] I was 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.

And concerning Jerusalem, people will say [“It is as though] everyone was born there, and Almighty God will cause that city to remain strong/safe/secure.”

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

Yahweh will write a list of [the names of] the people of various groups [who belong to him], and he will say that [he considers them] all to be citizens of Jerusalem.

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

They will all dance and sing, saying, “Jerusalem is the source of all our blessings.”