Psalms 87

1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. This house is resting on the holy mountain.

2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah)

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

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah)

7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.