Psalms 87:5
free among the dead, as the slain ones + 87:5 Alex. om. ἐῤῥιμμένοι, cast out. cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom you remember no more; and they are rejected from your hand. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
4I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; 1
6They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death. 1
Cross References
Psalms 48:8or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever, 1
Isaiah 44:4and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on the banks of running water.
Ezekiel 48:35The circumference, eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, shall be the name thereof.
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 →