Psalms 87:3
Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
In Context
2The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.
Cross References
Psalms 46:4\46:3\Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)
Psalms 48:11\48:10\As your name is, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness.
Isaiah 12:6Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
Isaiah 54:2Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.
Isaiah 61:3To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Jeremiah 31:12So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
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 →