Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
In Context
2LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Cross References
Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Psalms 48:11Let mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments.
Isaiah 12:6Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 54:2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations. Spare not. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
Isaiah 61:3to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that
Jeremiah 31:12And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered gard
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:2-4
The Glory of Zion. 1 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. Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains—the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was… Read the whole commentary →