Psalm 87:2-4

Good News Translation

²    more than any other place in Israel
    he loves the city of Jerusalem.
³Listen, 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^[a]
I will number among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”

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Footnotes

Psalm 87:4 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).