Psalms 87:3

Glorious things he is speaking of you, you city of God. Selah

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Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

In Context

2The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

4“Among those who are mine I name Rahab and Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, their people will say I was born in Zion.

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Cross References

Psalms 46:4A river there is, whose streams make glad God’s city, the home the Most High has hallowed.

Psalms 48:11Let mount Zion be glad; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

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 →

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