Psalms 87

1 A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.

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

2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

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

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

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

4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born there.

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 said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish 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 he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. (Selah)

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

7 As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there: ] all my springs [are] in thee.

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