Psalms 87:6
LORD will count when he writes up the peoples: This [man] was born there. Selah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
7Those who sing as well as those who dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.
Cross References
Psalms 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How I will put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
Ezekiel 13:9And my hand shall be against the prophets who see FALSE visions, and who divine lies. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the
Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.
Revelation 13:8And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.
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 →