Psalms 87:3
Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
In Context
2O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.
4For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.
Cross References
Psalms 46:4He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.
Psalms 48:11He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.
Isaiah 12:6Exult and give praise, O habitation of Zion! For the Great One, the Holy One of Israel, is in your midst!”
Isaiah 54:2Enlarge the place of your tent and extend the skins of your tabernacles, unsparingly. Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 61:3to take up the mourners of Zion and to give them a crown in place of ashes, an oil of joy in place of mourning, a cloak of praise in place of a spirit of grief. And there, they shall be called the strong ones of justice, the planting of the Lord, unto glorification.
Jeremiah 31:12And they will arrive and give praise on Mount Zion. And they will flow together, to the good things of the Lord, over grain, and wine, and oil, and the offspring of cattle and herds. And their soul will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer be hungry.
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 →