Psalms 87:6
Yahweh writes in the census book of the nations, 1 “This one was born there.” Selah 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
7So also the singers and the dancers say together, 1 “All my fountains are in you.”
Cross References
Psalms 69:28Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life 1 and not be written down along with the righteous. 1
Jeremiah 3:19As for me, I said, 'How I want to treat you as my son and give you a pleasant land, 1 an inheritance more beautiful than what is in any other nation!' I would have said, 'You will call me “my father”.' 1 I would have said that you would not turn from following me. 1
Ezekiel 13:9My hand will be against the prophets who have lying visions and who make false predictions. They will not be in the assembly of my people, or enrolled in the record of the house of Israel; they must not go to the land of Israel. For you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh!
Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Revelation 13:8All who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written, since the creation of the world, in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb, who had been slaughtered.
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 →