Psalm 87 – Zion, City of God

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87 Of the Korahites, a psalm. A song.

87 On the holy mountain stands

the city he founded.

2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion

more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3 Glorious things he is speaking of you,

you city of God. Selah

4 ‘Among those who are mine I name Rahab and Babylon,

Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia,

their people will say I was born in Zion.

5 As for Zion it will be said

each and all were born in her.’

The Lord will preserve her.

6 The Lord will count, when enrolling the peoples,

‘This one was born there, and that one was born there.’ Selah

7 Singers and dancers alike will say

‘All my springs are in you.’