Psalms 87:2
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
In Context
3Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.
Isaiah 14:32And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.
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 →