Psalms 87:6
free 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
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
5I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; 1 I became as a man without help;
7They laid me in the lowest pit, 1 In dark places, and in the shadow of death. 1
Cross References
Jeremiah 3:19And I said, So be it, Lord, for thou saidst, I will set thee among children, and will give thee a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, Ye shall call me Father; and ye shall not turn away from me.
Ezekiel 13:9And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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 →