Psalms 87

1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof 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 loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

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

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

Glorious things have been spoken of thee, 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 were 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 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath 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 shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that 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 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

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