Psalms 87:6
Jehovah doth recount in the describing of the peoples, 'This [one] was born there.' Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
In Context
5And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.
7Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains [are] in Thee!
Cross References
Psalms 69:28They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.
Jeremiah 3:19And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father — ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.
Ezekiel 13:9And My hand hath been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, And unto the ground of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.
Galatians 4:26and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
Revelation 13:8And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb 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 →