Psalms 87

1 to/for son: descendant/people Korah melody song foundation his in/on/with mountain holiness

Of the Korahites, a psalm. A song. On the holy mountain stands the city he founded.

2 to love: lover LORD gate Zion from all tabernacle Jacob

The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3 to honor: honour to speak: speak in/on/with you city [the] God (Selah)

Glorious things he is speaking of you, you city of God. (Selah)

4 to remember Rahab and Babylon to/for to know me behold Philistia and Tyre with Cush this to beget there

‘Among those who are mine I name Rahab and Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, their people will say I was born in Zion.

5 and to/for Zion to say man and man to beget in/on/with her and he/she/it to establish: establish her Most High

As for Zion it will be said each and all were born in her.’ The Lord will preserve her.

6 LORD to recount in/on/with to write people this to beget there (Selah)

The Lord will count, when enrolling the peoples, ‘This one was born there, and that one was born there.’ (Selah)

7 and to sing like/as to play flute all spring my in/on/with you

Singers and dancers alike will say ‘All my springs are in you.’