Psalms 87:2
O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
In Context
3Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, you shall approach the place which the Lord your God will choose among all your tribes, so that he may set his name there, and may dwell in that place.
Isaiah 14:32And what will be the response to this news among the nations? It will be that the Lord has established Zion, and that the poor of his people will hope in him.
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 →