Psalm 87 87 Psalms Book 3 Douay-Rheims Bible The LORD Loves the Gates of Zion 1 DRA For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: BSB BSB: A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.
2 DRA The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. BSB BSB: The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 DRA Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. BSB BSB: Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah
4 DRA I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there. BSB BSB: “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
5 DRA Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her. BSB BSB: And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
6 DRA The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her. BSB BSB: The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
7 DRA The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing. A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. BSB BSB: Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
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