Psalms 87

1 A Psalme or song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God layde his foundations among the holy mountaines.

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

2 The Lord loueth the gates of Zion aboue all the habitations of Iaakob.

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

3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O citie of God. (Selah)

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

4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babel among them that knowe me: beholde Palestina and Tyrus with Ethiopia, There is he borne.

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.

5 And of Zion it shall be sayde, Many are borne in her: and he, euen the most High shall stablish her.

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

6 The Lord shall count, when hee writeth the people, He was borne there. (Selah)

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

7 Aswell the singers as the players on instruments shall prayse thee: all my springs are in thee.

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