Psalmorum 87

1 filiis Core psalmus cantici fundamenta eius in montibus sanctis

The city that Yahweh established is on his sacred hill.

2 diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob

He loves that city, Jerusalem, more than he loves any other city in Israel.

3 gloriosa dicta sunt de te civitas Dei diapsalma

[You people in] [APO] the city that God (owns/lives in), people say wonderful things about your city.

4 memor ero Raab et Babylonis scientibus me ecce alienigenae et Tyrus et populus Aethiopum hii fuerunt illic

[Some of those who know about God are the people of] Egypt and Babylonia, and also [the people of] Philistia and Tyre and Ethiopia; [some day they all] will say, “[Although I was not born in Jerusalem], [because I belong to Yahweh, it is as though] I was born there.”

5 numquid Sion dicet homo et homo natus est in ea et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus

And concerning Jerusalem, people will say [“It is as though] everyone was born there, and Almighty God will cause that city to remain strong/safe/secure.”

6 Dominus narrabit in scriptura populorum et principum horum qui fuerunt in ea diapsalma

Yahweh will write a list of [the names of] the people of various groups [who belong to him], and he will say that [he considers them] all to be citizens of Jerusalem.

7 sicut laetantium omnium habitatio in te

They will all dance and sing, saying, “Jerusalem is the source of all our blessings.”