Psalmorum 87

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

A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

2 diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

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

3 Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God.

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

“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me— along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush — when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”

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

And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”

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

The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.”

7 Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.]

Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”