Psalms 87

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

Filiis Core. Psalmus cantici. [Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis;

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

diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

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

Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.]