Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Psalms 87:3 in other translations
| BSB | Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah |
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| WEB | Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. |
| ASV | Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah |
| YLT | Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah. |
| DARBY | Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. |
| BBE | Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.) |
| Webster | Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. |
What does Psalms 87:3 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 87:1-3
Christ himself is the Foundation of the church, which God has laid. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, nor of those that belong to it, since such glorious things are spoken of it. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, even Jesus Christ. The glorious things spoken of Zion by the Spirit, were all typical of Christ…
Psalms 87:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 87:3
- Ezekiel 37:27-28
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
- Ezekiel 36:11-38
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God. …
- Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. …
- Hebrews 12:22-23
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
- Psalms 48:2-3
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
- Revelation 14:1
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
- Jeremiah 31:12-13
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
- Isaiah 49:14-26
But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. …
- Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
- Psalms 125:1-2
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
- Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Psalms 48:11-13
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
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- Psalms 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
- Psalms 87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Psalms 87:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cosas ilustres son dichas de ti, ciudad de Dios. (Selah.) |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Des choses glorieuses sont dites de toi, cité de Dieu. Sélah. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Herrliches ist von dir geredet, du Stadt Gottes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Intret in conspectu tuo oratio mea, inclina aurem tuam ad precem meam. |