Psalms 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
In Context
1For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:
3Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:
Psalms 78:67And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Isaiah 14:32And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall 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 →