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Psalm 87 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

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BBE Bible in Basic English
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. This house is resting on the holy mountain.
1 A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.
2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
3 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
4 Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.
4 I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”
5 And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.
5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)
6 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.
7 The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.
7 Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
Cross references (7)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 2:2–3; Ephesians 2:20–22; Matthew 16:18
  2. 2 Psalm 132:13–14; Deuteronomy 12:5; Psalm 78:67–69; Joel 2:32; Isaiah 14:32
  3. 3 Ezekiel 37:27–28; Ezekiel 36:11–38; Revelation 21:10–27; Hebrews 12:22–23; Psalm 48:2–3
  4. 4 Psalm 45:12; Isaiah 19:23–25; Psalm 68:31; Psalm 89:10; Job 9:13
  5. 5 Romans 8:31; Ezekiel 48:35; Isaiah 60:1–9; 1 Peter 1:23–24; John 1:12–14
  6. 6 Isaiah 4:3; Luke 10:20; Ezekiel 13:9; Revelation 20:15; Psalm 69:28
  7. 7 Psalm 36:9; John 1:16; Isaiah 12:3; Revelation 22:17; Revelation 21:6

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXVI)

    No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men; so that when we speak to God in prayer …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 87:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book X, Chapters 7–9)

    For we and they together are the one city of God, to which it is said in the psalm, "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God;" the human part sojourning here below, the angelic aiding from above.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 87:4 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture II)

    And if you wish to receive Scriptural testimony of her having been saved, you have it written in the Psalms: I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 87:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XI)

    For there it is written, "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." And in another psalm we read, "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness, increasing the joy of the whole earth." And, a little after, in the same psalm, "As we have …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  5. Quotes verse 87:5 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVII, Chapters 14–16)

    Of which city another psalm says, "Mother Sion, shall a man say, and the man is made in her, and the Highest Himself hath founded her." Who is this Highest, save God?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)