Psalms 87:4

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

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

In Context

3For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades. 1

5free 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

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:16And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girded with a club, even he thought to strike David.

2 Kings 20:17Behold, the days come, that all things that are in your house shall be taken, and all that your fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not + 20:17 Gr. be left behind. fail a word, which the Lord has spoken.

Psalms 89:10As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and + 89:10 Or, what is more than these. the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. 1

Psalms 137:8O Lord, you shall recompense them on my behalf: your mercy, O Lord, endures for ever: overlook not the works of your hands.

Isaiah 14:4And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, + 14:4 Alex. + 'and you shall say in that day' How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

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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