Psalms 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
In Context
2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Cross References
Psalms 42:1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
Psalms 68:16Why leap all of you, all of you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
Psalms 121:1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help.
Isaiah 2:2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah 28:16Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
Zechariah 8:3Thus says the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:1
The foregoing psalm was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood. It is an encomium of Zion, as a type and figure of the gospel-church, to which what is here spoken is very applicable. Zion, for the temple's sake, is here preferred, I. Before the rest of the land of Canaan, as being crowned with special tokens of God's favour, ver. 1-3 . II. Before any other place or country whatsoever, as being replenished with more eminent men and with a greater plenty of divine blessings, ver.… Read the whole commentary →