Psalmorum 87

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

`The salm of the song of the sones of Chore. The foundementis therof ben in hooli hillis;

2 diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob.

the Lord loueth the yatis of Sion, more than alle the tabernaclis of Jacob.

3 Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei!

Thou citee of God, with outen ende; gloriouse thingis ben seide of thee.

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

I schal be myndeful of Raab, and Babiloyne; knowynge me. Lo! aliens, and Tyre, and the puple of Ethiopiens; thei weren there.

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

Whether a man schal seie to Sion, And a man is born ther ynne; and that man altherhiyeste foundide it?

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

The Lord schal telle in the scripturis of puplis; and of these princis, that weren ther ynne.

7 Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.

As the dwellyng `of alle that ben glad; is in thee.