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Psalms 87:1
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A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korah.
On the holy mountain stands the city founded by the Lord .A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
The Lord built Jerusalem on the holy mountain.Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song.
The Lord 's city is in the holy hills.A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.
His foundation is on the holy mountain.
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;The title of the sixte and eiytetithe salm. `The salm of the song of the sones of Chore.
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is on the holy mountains.
(A psalm and a song by the people of Korah.)
Zion was built by the Lord on the holy mountain,A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.A psalm of the sons of Korach. A song: On the holy mountains is [the city's] foundation.
Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.
His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.A song of praise from the Korah family.
The Lord built his city on the holy hills.A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
[A Psalme or song for the sonnes of Korah.] His foundation is in the holy mountaines.
The city God built stands on the holy mountains.
Of the Korahites. A Psalm. A Song.
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;A Psalme or song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God layde his foundations among the holy mountaines.
HER foundations are on his holy mountain.
The Lord built his city on the sacred hill;
(86-1) <For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle.> The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
God loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob:
His foundations are in the holy mountains.
The city he founded is on the holy mountains.
Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
His foundation is on the holy mountains.For the Sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
By sons of Korah. -- A Psalm, a song. His foundation [is] in holy mountains.
Hir foundacions are vpo the holy hilles: the LORDE loueth the gates of Sion more, the all ye dwelliges of Iacob.
A Korah Psalm He founded Zion on the Holy Mountain— and oh, how God loves his home! Loves it far better than all the homes of Jacob put together! God's hometown—oh! everyone there is talking about you!
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for: or, of
His: 2 Chronicles 3:1, Isaiah 28:16, Matthew 16:18, 1 Corinthians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 3:11, Ephesians 2:20-22, 1 Peter 2:4-8
the holy: Psalms 48:1, Psalms 48:2, Psalms 68:16, Psalms 121:1, Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 56:7, Zechariah 8:3, 2 Peter 1:18
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:21 - the city 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the God Psalms 15:1 - holy Psalms 68:15 - of God Psalms 99:9 - his holy Psalms 122:2 - General Isaiah 14:32 - the Lord Jeremiah 31:23 - and mountain Daniel 9:16 - thy holy Joel 2:1 - in my Zephaniah 3:11 - because of my holy John 4:20 - and ye
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Jewish writers connect these words with the title of the psalm, and make the sense to be this; "the foundation" or argument "of it", the psalm, "is concerning the holy mountains" of Zion and Jerusalem; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi; and the Targum joins them together thus,
"by the hands of the sons of Korah is said a song, which is founded by the mouth of the fathers that were of old:''
but the words are a part of the song or psalm, which begins in an abrupt manner, just as Song of Solomon 1:2 and may be rendered either "its foundation", or "his foundation", and refer either to the church, or to the Lord, and the sense is the same either way; for the church's foundation is also the Lord's foundation, a foundation of his laying; see Isaiah 14:32 and is laid "in the holy mountains"; alluding to the mountains of Zion and Moriah, where the temple stood, a type of the church; or to the mountains about Jerusalem, by which also the church is frequently signified; and by those, in a mystical and spiritual sense, may be meant the purposes and decrees of God, which are as mountains of brass, Zechariah 6:1, they are like the ancient mountains for the antiquity of them, and are high, and not to be reached and searched into, and are firm, solid, and immoveable; and are also holy, particularly the decree of election, that source of all true holiness, which has sanctification for its end and means; and is the foundation of the church, which supports and secures it, and stands sure, 2 Timothy 2:19, also the covenant of grace, which is sure and immoveable, and in which are provisions for holiness, internal and external; and is the foundation and security of the church, and all believers; but especially Jesus Christ, the Rock of ages, is meant, the Holy One of Israel, the sure foundation laid in Zion: some interpret these holy mountains of the holy apostles, who were in an high and eminent station in the church, and were doctrinally foundations, as they ministerially laid Christ, as the only foundation; see Ephesians 2:20, it may be rendered, "among the holy mountains" w; and so may regard, as Cocceius explains it, the several kingdoms and provinces of the world in which the Gospel shall be preached; and the church shall be established and settled in the latter day even upon the tops of mountains, which shall become holy to the Lord, Isaiah 2:2.
w בהררי קדש "inter montes sanctitatis", Junius Tremellius so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His foundation - This is an abrupt commencement of the psalm. The adjective “his” has been supposed by some to refer to the psalm itself, and this expression has been considered to be a part of the title to the psalm, meaning that the foundation of the psalm is the holy mountain where the praises of God were celebrated; that is Zion. This, however, is a forced and unnatural interpretation. The most obvious explanation is to refer it to God, and the meaning is, that his “foundation,” or that which he had founded and established, to wit, the place for his worship, or for the institutions of religion, was in the holy mountains of Jerusalem. It would seem that the psalmist was contemplating the city - looking on its walls, and its palaces, and especially on the place which had been reared for the worship of God, and that he breaks out in this abrupt manner, by saying that this was what God had founded; that here he had established his home; that here was the place where he was worshipped, and where he dwelt; that this was the place which he loved more than all the other places where the descendants of Jacob dwelt.
Is in the holy mountains - The mountains of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is surrounded by hills, and within the city itself there were the hills of Zion, Moriah, Acra, and Bezethah; See the notes at Matthew 2:1. These sacred hills God had selected as the place of his solemn worship - of his own abode. Compare the notes at Psalms 48:1-2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM LXXXVII
The nature and glorious privileges of Zion and Jerusalem, 1-3.
No other city to be compared to this, 4.
The privilege of being born in it, 5, 6.
Its praises celebrated, 7.
NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVII
The title, A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah, gives us no light into the author or meaning of this Psalm. It begins and ends so abruptly that many have thought it to be only a fragment of a larger Psalm. This opinion is very likely. Those who suppose it to have been made when Jerusalem was rebuilt and fortified, imagine it to have been an exclamation of the author on beholding its beauty, and contemplating its privileges. If this opinion be allowed, it will account for the apparent abruptness in the beginning and end. As to its general design it seems to have been written in praise of Jerusalem; and those who are for mystic meanings think that it refers to the Christian Church; and, on this supposition it is interpreted by several writers, both ancient and modern. To pretend to have found out the true meaning would be very absurd. I have done the best I could to give its literal sense.
Verse Psalms 87:1. His foundation is in the holy mountains. — Jerusalem was founded on the mountains or hills of Zion and Moriah. The after increase of the population obliged the inhabitants to inclose all the contiguous hills; but Zion and Moriah were the principal. We know that ancient Rome was built on seven hills.
