1 A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there. 5 Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the peoples, this one was born there. Selah 7 They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.
Psalms · Revised Version with Apocrypha
Psalm 87 Revised Version with Apocrypha
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 2:2–3; Ephesians 2:20–22; Matthew 16:18
- 2 Psalm 132:13–14; Deuteronomy 12:5; Psalm 78:67–69; Joel 2:32; Isaiah 14:32
- 3 Ezekiel 37:27–28; Ezekiel 36:11–38; Revelation 21:10–27; Hebrews 12:22–23; Psalm 48:2–3
- 4 Psalm 45:12; Isaiah 19:23–25; Psalm 68:31; Psalm 89:10; Job 9:13
- 5 Romans 8:31; Ezekiel 48:35; Isaiah 60:1–9; 1 Peter 1:23–24; John 1:12–14
- 6 Isaiah 4:3; Luke 10:20; Ezekiel 13:9; Revelation 20:15; Psalm 69:28
- 7 Psalm 36:9; John 1:16; Isaiah 12:3; Revelation 22:17; Revelation 21:6
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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).
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“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).
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)