Psalms 87:4

I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

In Context

3Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:16Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword, attempted to kill David.

2 Kings 20:17Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

Psalms 45:12And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

Psalms 89:10Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

Psalms 137:8The sun to rule over the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Isaiah 14:4Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

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 →

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