Psalms 87:5
Yea, of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6LORD will count when he writes up the peoples: This [man] was born there. Selah.
Cross References
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, God will establish it forever. Selah.
Isaiah 44:4And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
Ezekiel 48:35It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about. And the name of the city from that day shall be, LORD is there.
John 1:12But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
Romans 8:31What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Hebrews 11:32And what shall I say further? For the time would fail me telling about Gideon, also Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:5-7
The Glory of Zion. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. 6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them;… Read the whole commentary →