Psalms 87

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

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

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

diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob.

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

Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.