Psalms 87:5

I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; 1 I became as a man without help;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

In Context

4For my soul is filled with troubles, 1 And my life has drawn nigh to Hades. 1

6free among the dead, 1 As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; 1 Whom thou rememberest no more; 1 And they are rejected from thy hand. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 48:8A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? 1 He shall not give to God a ransom for himself, 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 →

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