Psalms 87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the peoples, this one was born there. Selah
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
7They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.
Cross References
Psalms 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations? and I said, Ye shall call me My father; and shall not turn away from following me.
Ezekiel 13:9And mine hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Galatians 4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
Revelation 13:8And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world.
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 →