Psalms 87:6
The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
7The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.
Cross References
Psalms 69:28Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
Jeremiah 3:19But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.
Ezekiel 13:9And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
Galatians 4:26But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother.
Revelation 13:8And all the dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning of the world.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:5-7
The Glory of Zion. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. 6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them;… Read the whole commentary →