Psalms 87

1 The Lord built his city on the sacred hill;
2 more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.
3 Listen, city of God, to the wonderful things he says about you:
4 "I will include Egypt and Babylonia when I list the nations that obey me; the people of Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia I will number among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
5 Of Zion it will be said that all nations belong there and that the Almighty will make her strong.
6 The Lord will write a list of the peoples and include them all as citizens of Jerusalem.
7 They dance and sing, "In Zion is the source of all our blessings."

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. sacred hill: [See 2.6.]
  • [b]. [Hebrew] Cush: [Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman time, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).]

Psalms 87 Commentaries

Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.