Psalms 87:1
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
In Context
2The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Cross References
Psalms 42:1Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.
Psalms 68:16The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.
Psalms 121:1In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.
Isaiah 2:2And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah 28:16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.
Zechariah 8:3Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:1
The foregoing psalm was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood. It is an encomium of Zion, as a type and figure of the gospel-church, to which what is here spoken is very applicable. Zion, for the temple's sake, is here preferred, I. Before the rest of the land of Canaan, as being crowned with special tokens of God's favour, ver. 1-3 . II. Before any other place or country whatsoever, as being replenished with more eminent men and with a greater plenty of divine blessings, ver.… Read the whole commentary →