Psalms 87

1 A psalm of the sons of Korah; a song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

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

2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the tents of Jacob.

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

3 Glorious things are said of you, city of God. (Selah)

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

4 “I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. See, there are Philistia, and Tyre, along with Cush— and will say, 'This one 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 Of Zion it will be said, “Each of these was born in her; and the Most High himself will establish her.”

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

6 Yahweh writes in the census book of the nations, “This one was born there.” (Selah)

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

7 So also the singers and the dancers say together, “All my fountains are in you.”

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