Psalm 87:2-4

The Voice

²The Eternal loves Zion’s gates;
He prefers it over any other place where Jacob’s descendants make their homes.
³Spectacular things are said about you,
O Jerusalem, city of the True God.

[pause]^[a]

⁴God says, “I tell of some who know Me in Egypt^[b] and Babylon;
behold, My people are in Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia^[c] too:
‘This person was born there.’”

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Footnotes

87:3 Literally, selah, likely a musical direction from a Hebrew root meaning “to lift up”
87:4 Hebrew, Rahab, a poetic reference to Egypt
87:4 Hebrew, Cush