Psalms Chapter 87

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah

¹ The city that Yahveh founded stands on his holy mountain;

         ²he loves Zion more than the other places in Jacob.

³ Glorious things are said about you, city of God.                 

⁴ “I’ll count Rahab [Egypt] and Babylon among those who know me,

         Philistia, Tyre, and Nubia too:

      ‘They’ve become citizens there,’” people will say.

⁵ But they will say about Zion,

      “This one and that one were born here”;

      the Most High himself has made it so.

⁶ When Yahveh registers the nations,

      he’ll say, “They’ve all become citizens here.”                

⁷ Then those who sing and those who play flutes will say,

         “The springs of all our joy are in you.”

Ps 87:1-7